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* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/defuddle/ Defuddle] | * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/defuddle/ Defuddle] | ||
** [http://defuddle.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzr/defuddle/files Defuddle files] | ** [http://defuddle.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzr/defuddle/files Defuddle files] | ||
| + | * [https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/confluence/display/DFDL/Daffodil%3A+Open+Source+DFDL;jsessionid=02CAA258D60731554A202263495C6F4F Daffodil (in progress)] | ||
== Other links == | == Other links == | ||
Revision as of 12:23, 30 May 2013
DFDL (Data Format Definition Language) is a file format for describing file formats. It is an XML-based schema that allows arbitrary binary or text-based data formats to be described in a manner which allows the automated parsing of the data file into a corresponding XML file with the same data elements in the same order, capable of round-trip transformations to and from the original data format without loss. A DFDL document consists of an XML schema describing the data fields of a format, supplemented with annotations which describe how the data is stored (defining delimiters, endianness, etc.).
A partial (and not quite fully standards-compliant) implementation of a DFDL parser has been released as the open-source project Defuddle. Implementation is in progress of a new, improved DFDL parser called Daffodil.
