XDXF (XML Dictionary eXchange Format) is a project to unite all existing open dictionaries and provide both users and developers with a universal

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable ...

-based format, convertible from and to other popular formats like Mova, PtkDic, and

StarDict StarDict, developed by Hu Zheng (胡正), is a free GUI released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license for accessing StarDict dictionary files (a ''dictionary shell''). It is the successor of StarDic, developed by Ma Su'an (馬蘇安), continuing ...

Available dictionaries

As of December 15, 2006 the XDXF project repository contains 615 dictionaries, which are collectively 936,189,613 bytes in size (compressed) and contain 24,804,355 articles.

Software

GUIs

The XDXF file format is used b
AlpusSimpleDict
and

GoldenDict GoldenDict is a free and open-source dictionary program that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages. It allows the use of several popular dictionary file formats simultaneously and without conversion. The project aims to ...

. Also

starting with version 2.4.6 has basic support for XDXF.

Converters

There are numerous converters
pyglossaryxdxf2slob
and others. Initially, the project had its own converter, but it was deprecated.

Alternatives

Many languages serve a similar purpose, e.g., the

Lexical Markup Framework Language resource management - Lexical markup framework (LMF; ISO 24613:2008), is the International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC37 standard for natural language processing (NLP) and machine-readable dictionary (MRD) lexicons. The scope ...

(XML and other serializations), OntoLex (RDF),

DICT DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group in 1997, described by RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol to allow clients to access a variety of dictionaries via a uniform interface. In section 3 ...

(text format), or the dicML markup languages. As for dicML and XDXF, neither concept is specified completely. For example, XDXF lacks elements to annotate possible hyphenations, while the recent working draft of dicML does not include elements to describe the etymology of words.

References

External links

Project siteXDXF dictionaries repositoryXDXF StandardEasy XDXF Dictionary – Free dictionary for Iphone
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