Mike -- This seems quite similar to the proposal I submited based on Type Descriptor.  They have a schema for the physical representation and the instances of which  (eg. recordInfo, fieldInfo etc) appear as annotations on schema elements , attributes etc.  


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Microsoft has a completely proprietary but otherwise DFDL-like thing in its bag of tricks too:
 
see

http://www.winterdom.com/dev/bts/BTSFFSchemaTut2.html