Online Dictionary Defination XML Format

This is one example XML for online dictionary:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<modicts>
    <dict>
        <name>Bcwelt DeEn Example</name>
        <url>http://dict.bcwelt.de/api/bcsearch.php?f=de&amp;t=cn&amp;w=</url>
        <desc>Free bcwelt German-English online translator</desc>
        <format>XML</format>
        <lanfrom>24</lanfrom>
        <lanto>18</lanto>
        <inunicode>UTF-8</inunicode>
        <outunicode>UTF-8</outunicode>
        <pronounce>pron</pronounce>
        <reg></reg>
        <filter>
                <param>row1</param>
                <param>row2</param>
                <param>row3</param>
                ..........
        </filter>
  </dict>
  <dict>
         ......
  </dict>
</modicts>

1. Format

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<format> node only allow the following three fommats:

• XML
• HTML
• Plain Text

2. Language List

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<lanfrom> and <lanto> nodes are the language pair for online dictionary, please use integer number as language, which you can find the right matched Id in the list for supported languages.

3. Unicode

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<inunicode> is the encode which the online translate protocol accept;
<outunicode> is the encode of translation content that sent back from online translator protocol.
if you use the wrong encode, your translation will look wired.

•         UTF-8
•         ISO-8859-1
•         Big5
•         Big5_HKSCS
•         GBK
•         GB2312
•         ISO-2022-JP
•         SHIFT_JIS
•         ISO-2022-KR
•         EUC-JP
•         SJIS
•         EUC-KR

4. Replace These Special Chars in XML

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When you fill the value of nodes <name>, <url>, <desc> and <reg>, please notice DO NOT use the the following special chars directly, you need use the Replaced String instead of those special chars, because XML not allows these special chars.

Description:

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You should know a little bit about XML :)

<modicts> is top level node, it is allowed to contain more than one <dict> nodes. Each node <dict> is one description for one online dictioanry.

 <name> is the your custom name of online dictioanry. Avoid to use special chars directly here. Max. Length 50.

 <url> is the URL of online translate protocol. Avoid to use special chars directly here. Max. Length 200.

 <desc> is the description text for online dictionaryl. Avoid to use special chars directly here. Max. Length 100.

<format> is the format.of response content from online translate server.

<lanfrom> is the language which you want to translate from, <lanto> is the destination language which you want to translate.

<inunicode>  is the encode which the online translate protocol accept, <outunicode>  is the encode of response translation content that sent back from online translator protocol.

The following filter please refer to this article: Modict And How to Create Online Dictionary

<pronounce> is the filter name which could contain the the url of sound file from online translate server. Max. Length 50.

<reg> is regular expression filter for translation content. Max. Length 100.

<filter> can have more than 0, include 0 <param> , each <param> is one filter for translation content. Max. Length 50.

Save:

 Please make sure save the file in UTF-8 format, otherwise Modict And will fail to import this XML file.