
Whereas Heder’s debut film, Tallulah, was interesting if overwrought, CODA finds the right balance of melodrama and mundane detail. Read: 30 films that are unlike anything you’ve seen before Even so, CODA is insightful and moving enough to be worth all the fuss. So it arrives on streaming this weekend saddled with quite a bit of hype for a little indie movie. It won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, generating enough buzz to be acquired by Apple TV+ for a record-breaking sum. Yes, you can slap trite labels on this movie: It’s a feel-good tale, an inspirational work filled with tears, emotional breakthroughs, and a dash of sly humor. Heder wrote and directed CODA, a remake of a hit French film, and her most distinctive touches as a storyteller come in tiny, astute observations. When she’s shaken awake, she signs a startled “What’s wrong?” to no one in particular, her head still in the world she just left.

Then she goes to school, often so tired that she’ll fall asleep at her desk, to the bemusement of her teachers.

Early in the morning, she works on her family’s fishing boat, sorting fresh-caught haddock from the boots that get stuck in their net and, as the only hearing member of the Rossis, helping translate sign language to vendors onshore. AttributesĬODA will provide an attribute record for each XML element and it contains all attributes for the element as they are stored in the XML file.Ruby Rossi, the titular “child of deaf adults” in Sian Heder’s new film, CODA, lives a bifurcated life. This single field will correspond with the top-level xml element of the file. The root of an XML product is always mapped to a record containing a single field. Mixed content is not supported by CODA and opening files with such content will result in an error. XML elements can contain only other elements (in which case it is mapped to a record), contain pure text data (in which case its content is described using CODA ascii types), or mixed content (as in XHTML). Arrays of XML elements are always one dimensional and their size is always dynamic. When an XML element can occur more than once within its parent element then the field will be an array. The approach of turning an element name into an identifier is to convert all characters that or not alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, A-Z) to an underscore. no spaces and special characters may be used). These names can sometimes differ because fieldnames have to be formatted as an identifier in CODA (i.e. The name of the record field is based on the XML element name. XML elementsĮach XML element in an XML file is mapped to a record field. In this definition all XML leaf elements will be interpreted as plain text (i.e. CODA will parse the whole file and build up a dynamic definition of the file. When there is no description provided for an XML file, then CODA will still be able to open the file. The main reason behind this choice is that the regular CODA product format descriptions (for raw ascii/binary files) can then be reused to describe the ASCII content of XML leaf elements (allowing for non-standard time or boolean formats, multi-dimensional arrays of numbers, etc.). However, CODA does not rely on XML Schema files for the XML definitions but uses its own description mechansim for XML files. With an external definition one can also prescribe the occurrence of each xml element.Ī common way of providing such external definitions is by means of an XML Schema file.

is it an integer, real, string, etc.?) an external definition is required. However, in order to properly interpret the ASCII data within an XML element (i.e. When an XML file is opened the structure of a product can be retrieved from the file itself.

XML products are partial self describing products. Below we will describe how CODA maps the XML product structure to one that is based on the CODA data types. CODA provides access to XML by creating a view on the XML files using the CODA data types.
