Re: [xml-dev] XSL for non-XML input (Was: Re: [xml-dev] XML Hangover)

>On 07-13-2005 4:25 AM, Pete Cordell wrote:
>>  Not that I have a need to do that right now!  I'm just interested 
>>to know whether XSL can be used as a kind of universal data 
>>translator.

You may be interested in DFDL, the Data Format Description Language
which is used to map binary or textual formats into XML.

There will be a tutorial on DFDL (pronounced "daffodil") at
Extreme Markup Languages 2005 in Montreal in August. For
a tutorial description see:
    http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Tutorials/index.html#Rose

and for information about Extreme see:
    http://www.extrememarkup.com/


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