XDXF - The Extensible (XML) Dictionary Exchange Format

[iamme]

Hi, I'm working on a program which suppurts xdxf. The issue is about installation XDXF. I'd like user to be able to easyly install xdxf, and for this purpose the program needs to know download links.

AIs there any XML which stores downloads links or something similar?

thank you.

[sergeysn]

The dictionaries are stored on the SourceForge mirrors. And they keep changing the mirrors and the URLs. Currently the best way is to parse SourceForge's download page. I was thinking about hosting all the XDXF files locally at Revdanica, but the hosting would be rather expansive.

[iamme]

thank you for reply,
do you mean this page http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down/ to parse?

[iamme]

and another thing I have to ask:

is this the only place to download xdxf dictionaries? Or there may be a case when user already has xdxf downloaded from somewhere, and it is not compressed or compressed another way. Or he has xdxf file without icons files...or other variants?

[sergeysn]

[sergeysn]

[iamme]

thanks again.

but I have one more question, let's take a part of the content of

http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down/repo_xml.php XML.


<mirror>http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xdxf/</mirror>
<mirror>http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xdxf/</mirror>
<mirror>http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xdxf/</mirror>
<mirror>http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xdxf/</mirror>
<mirror>http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xdxf/</mirror>
<mirror>http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xdxf/</mirror>
<mirror>http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xdxf/</mirror>
<dict>
<icon>http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down/buf/comn_sdict05_afrikaans-english/icon16.png</icon>
<long_name>Afrikaans-English dictionary</long_name>
<down_link>comn_sdict05_afrikaans-english.tar.bz2</down_link>
<arc_bytes_qntt>47497</arc_bytes_qntt>
<bytes_qntt>186005</bytes_qntt>
<articles_qntt>4198</articles_qntt>
<lang_fr>afr</lang_fr>
<lang_to>eng</lang_to>
<submitter>Common XDXF</submitter>
<submition_date>2006-04-23 23:31:49</submition_date>
<info>Copyright: Converted by swaj under GNU Public License; Version: 1.1</info>
</dict>
<dict>

I have <down_link> and many mirrors. How to build a full download link from that? I tried to concatenate the links but that didn't work. file not found.

[sergeysn]

As I said "they keep changing the mirrors and the URLs", so you would have to parse their pages to figure out where are the files now, and it will work for a while until they change it again.

[iamme]

-And why are the dictionaries packed twice: tar and bz2? Is is a feature only for this repository or a standard?

-I can see an icon near ech XDXF file. Is it a standard? Or, again, do icons appear only in this repository?

[sergeysn]

1. tar bz2 is standard.

2. Each XDXF dictionary should have icon(s), and the repository can show one.