stevedlawrence commented on code in PR #195:
URL: https://github.com/apache/daffodil-site/pull/195#discussion_r2491360222
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+description: Binary Large Objects Feature
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+title: 'Binary Large Objects Feature'
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+## Table of Contents
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+# Introduction
+
+Daffodil has implemented a DFDL extension that allows data much larger than
memory to be manipulated.
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+A variety of data formats, such as for image and video files, consist of
fields of what is effectively metadata, surrounding large blocks of data
containing compressed image or video data.
+
+An important use case for DFDL is to expose this metadata for easy use, and to
provide access to
+the large data via a streaming mechanism akin to opening a file, thereby
avoiding
+large `xs:hexBinary` strings in the infoset.
+
+In RDBMS systems, BLOB (Binary Large Object) is the type used when the data
row returned from an SQL query will not contain the actual value data, but
rather a handle that can be used to open/read/write/close the BLOB.
+
+Daffodil has an analogous BLOB capability.
+This enables processing of images or video of arbitrary size without the need
to every hold all the data in memory.
Review Comment:
s/every/ever
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