Hi,

I would like to briefly introduce myself. I am currently leading a SBIR project for the US Navy (SBIR is a program designed to grow small businesses and emphasizes innovative research and application). A large part of what I’m working on involves the conversion of arbitrary binary data to XML for processing and back again. After evaluating several alternatives, I have come to believe that DFDL is pretty close to perfect for what we need. As there are no commercially available DFDL parsers available, part of my project will be to create such a parser (at least for the subset of the standard relevant to my effort – hopefully building to a complete implementation at some point). To that end, I will be approaching the standard from the perspective of an implementation developer and hope to be able to participate in the working group in whatever ways are useful. The level of my involvement depends on funding (relatively small right now), but I should know within a short timeframe (2 months or so) whether I will be funded for the next several years at a much higher level.

In any case, I am already generating questions and comments for the most recently published draft (033). Would it be valuable for me to send them to someone? How else can I be of assistance and participate now and in the future?

Thanks,

Dave

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