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Posted to commits@daffodil.apache.org by mb...@apache.org on 2021/01/27 19:41:34 UTC
[incubator-daffodil-site] branch master updated: upate doap to make
less XML/JSON specific.
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mbeckerle pushed a commit to branch master
in repository https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-daffodil-site.git
The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
new c7809ce upate doap to make less XML/JSON specific.
c7809ce is described below
commit c7809cedbf78fa06f6bbac5c9d87e41f86134dd2
Author: Michael Beckerle <mb...@tresys.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 27 12:17:26 2021 -0500
upate doap to make less XML/JSON specific.
---
site/doap.rdf | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/site/doap.rdf b/site/doap.rdf
index e538360..5cb3849 100644
--- a/site/doap.rdf
+++ b/site/doap.rdf
@@ -29,17 +29,19 @@
<asfext:pmc rdf:resource="https://incubator.apache.org" />
<shortdesc>Apache Daffodil is an open-source implementation of the
- Data Format Description Language to convert between fixed
- format data and XML/JSON.</shortdesc>
+ Data Format Description Language to convert between fixed format
+ data and XML, JSON, or other data structures.</shortdesc>
<description>Apache Daffodil is an open-source implementation of
the DFDL specification that uses DFDL data descriptions to parse
- fixed format data into an infoset, which is most commonly
- represented as either XML or JSON. This allows the use of
+ fixed format data into an infoset. This infoset is commonly converted
+ into XML or JSON to enable the use of
well-established XML or JSON technologies and libraries to
consume, inspect, and manipulate fixed format data in existing
- solutions. Daffodil is also capable of the reverse by
- serializing or "unparsing" an XML or JSON infoset back to the
- original data format.</description>
+ solutions. Daffodil is also capable of serializing or "unparsing"
+ data back to the original data format.
+ The DFDL infoset can also be converted directly to/from the
+ data structures carried by data processing frameworks so as to bypass any
+ XML/JSON overheads. </description>
<homepage rdf:resource="https://daffodil.apache.org" />
<download-page rdf:resource="https://daffodil.apache.org/releases/"/>