Hi everyone, I have been looking into DFDL for the second half of the project, but am not too clear on the steps necessary to move forward. Hopefully someone can offer advice or guidance.
>From the examples I've seen, DFDL seems to work by taking a non-XML file and generating two files from it: The first is an XML file that tags the strings, numbers, and other parts of the non-XML file. The second is a DFDL description file (.xsd) that contains the structure and representation of the information in the XML file. This may seem like doing a lot, but by specifying structure in this external file, it is easier to break down large, repetitive areas of information into concise XML chunks. (See example DFDL .xml and .xsd files posted at http://wiki.apache.org/ws/SummerOfCode/2005/binarySerialization/14) However, I am not quite clear on what I should be coding to implement this. Should I be taking non-structured content and generating these two DFDL files from them? Also, what kind of test data should I be working with? I am not too familiar with AXIOM, but my understanding was that the information to be serialized would already be in XML. Is this the right approach? Any advice? Thanks for your help! Mark
