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.
Suman Kalia
IBM Toronto Lab
WebSphere Business Integration Application Connectivity Tools
Tel : 905-413-3923 T/L 969-3923
Fax : 905-413-4850
Internet ID : kalia@ca.ibm.com
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[dfdl-wg] Microsoft Biztalk
Flat File Extensions
Microsoft has a completely proprietary but
otherwise DFDL-like thing in its bag of tricks too: