Hi Folks, Consider a Windows EXE file. The file is an executable, right? You "run" the file and something happens. Of course, you must run it with the proper application, otherwise nothing happens.
Consider a DFDL schema. When you give it to the proper application--such as Daffodil--then something happens. If you give it to the wrong application, nothing happens. So a DFDL schema is an executable. Well, perhaps I should not use the word "executable" as that has a specific meaning, referring to the Microsoft data format. Instead, let me say that a DFDL schema is a "program" and Daffodil is an application that runs the program. So DFDL is a programming language that we use to write programs (which we call "DFDL schemas"). Daffodil is an application that runs the programs. Do you agree? /Roger
