= DEBVisDic XML format =

DEBVisDic XML format is based on the format of the previous offline system [http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projects/visdic/ VisDic]. The !VisDic XML format is described [#VisDicXMLFormat below]. The main difference is that some values, e.g. literal sense number, are converted from tags to attributes. For example:
{{{
#!xml
 <SYNONYM>
  <LITERAL sense="1">entity</LITERAL>
 </SYNONYM>
}}}

The complete DEBVisDic XML format is decribed with [http://deb.fi.muni.cz/debvisdic.xsd this DEBVisDic XML schema].
You can convert XML in !VisDic format to DEBVisDic format using this XSLT template http://deb.fi.muni.cz/vis2deb.xslt


= !VisDic XML format =

XML files in !VisDic consist of tags and their values. Value of the TAG tag is enclosed in strings <TAG> and </TAG>. Tags can be nested, which means that each tag can contain another tag. White characters like spaces, tabs and new-lines at the start or at the end of each tag value are trimmed. However, XML files parsed by !VisDic are quite different from the common ones in these points:

    * XML dictionaries contain entries. Each entry is in fact represented by one small XML file. There is no tag enclosing the whole dictionary.
    * XML tag has no attributes. 

Example of one Wordnet synset:
{{{
#!xml
<SYNSET>
 <ID>ENG21-00001740-n</ID>
 <POS>n</POS>
 <SYNONYM>
  <LITERAL>entity<SENSE>1</SENSE></LITERAL>
 </SYNONYM>
 <DEF>that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)</DEF>
 <BCS>2</BCS>
 <DOMAIN>factotum</DOMAIN>
</SYNSET>
}}}

Tags and their values:
 * ID: unique synset identification
 * POS: Part of speech (n=noun, v=verb, a=adjective, b=adverb)
 * SYNONYM: synonyms
 * LITERAL: one literal
 * SENSE: sense number
 * DEF: definition
 * BCS: Common Base Concepts set number
 * DOMAIN: synset domain

The [http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projects/visdic/ VisDic] XML format is described by [http://deb.fi.muni.cz/visdic.dtd this VisDic DTD].