<s>
XDXF	B-Language
(	O
XML	B-Protocol
Dictionary	B-Operating_System
eXchange	O
Format	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
project	O
to	O
unite	O
all	O
existing	O
open	O
dictionaries	B-Operating_System
and	O
provide	O
both	O
users	O
and	O
developers	O
with	O
a	O
universal	O
XML-based	O
format	O
,	O
convertible	O
from	O
and	O
to	O
other	O
popular	O
formats	O
like	O
Mova	O
,	O
PtkDic	O
,	O
and	O
StarDict	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
December	O
15	O
,	O
2006	O
the	O
XDXF	B-Language
project	O
repository	O
contains	O
615	O
dictionaries	B-Operating_System
,	O
which	O
are	O
collectively	O
936,189,613	O
bytes	O
in	O
size	O
(	O
compressed	O
)	O
and	O
contain	O
24,804,355	O
articles	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
XDXF	B-Language
file	O
format	O
is	O
used	O
by	O
,	O
and	O
GoldenDict	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
StarDict	B-Language
starting	O
with	O
version	O
2.4.6	O
has	O
basic	O
support	O
for	O
XDXF	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
languages	O
serve	O
a	O
similar	O
purpose	O
,	O
e.g.	O
,	O
the	O
Lexical	B-General_Concept
Markup	I-General_Concept
Framework	I-General_Concept
(	O
XML	B-Protocol
and	O
other	O
serializations	O
)	O
,	O
OntoLex	O
(	O
RDF	O
)	O
,	O
DICT	B-Library
(	O
text	O
format	O
)	O
,	O
or	O
the	O
dicML	O
markup	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
for	O
dicML	O
and	O
XDXF	B-Language
,	O
neither	O
concept	O
is	O
specified	O
completely	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
XDXF	B-Language
lacks	O
elements	O
to	O
annotate	O
possible	O
hyphenations	O
,	O
while	O
the	O
recent	O
working	O
draft	O
of	O
dicML	O
does	O
not	O
include	O
elements	O
to	O
describe	O
the	O
etymology	O
of	O
words	O
.	O
</s>
