#use wml::ossp area=pkg:lib subarea=xds

<title>OSSP xds</title>

<h1>Extensible Data Serialization</h1>

<h2>Abstract</h2>

The OSSP xds library is generic and extensible encoding and decoding
framework for the serialization of arbitrary ISO C data types. OSSP
xds consists of three components: the generic encoding and decoding
framework, a set of shipped engines to encode and decode values in
certain existing formats (Sun RPC/XDR and XDS/XML are currently
provided), and a run-time context, which is used to manage buffers,
registered engines, etc. The library is designed to allow fully
recursive and efficient encoding/decoding of arbitrary nested data.

<h2>Documentation</h2>

<pkg_manpage name="xds" sect=3 path="/pkg/lib/xds/xds.pod">,
<pkg_manpage name="xds-config" sect=1 path="/pkg/lib/xds/xds-config.pod">.

<h2>Authors</h2>

<pkg_author name="Peter Simons" mail="simons@computer.org">

<h2>Status</h2>

<pkg_status
    name="xds" assign="rse"
    stable="none" stable_date="none"
    unstable="0.9.3" unstable_date="05-Oct-2005"
	done=100>

<h2>See Also</h2>

Sun RPC XDR, 
<a href="http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/encdec/">encdec</a>,
<a href="ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/groups/systems/chaos/pbio/">pbio</a>,
<a href="http://him.newmail.ru/">him</a>,
<a href="http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jop/xtl/">xtl</a>.

<h2>Source</h2>

<pkg_files 
    cvs=$(CVS_ROOT_URL)/pkg/lib/xds/
    url=$(FTP_ROOT_URL)/pkg/lib/xds/
    directory=$(FTP_ROOT_DIR)/pkg/lib/xds/
    files="xds-*.tar.gz" 
	stable="none" unstable="xds-0.9.3.tar.gz">
	
<h2>Donation</h2>

<pkg_donation name="xds" return="$(BASE_URL)/pkg/lib/xds/">