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Dictionary Definition Language (DDL) is a STAR-based file format, which allows user communities to define their own custom STAR-based file format for the data they need to exchange. DDL plays a similar role for STAR as XSD does for XML.

Examples

http://www.iucr.org/resources/cif/dictionaries - IUCr page listing DDL dictionaries for the CIF file format

References

DDLm: A New Dictionary Definition Language, Nick Spadaccini and Sydney R. Hall, J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2012, 52 (8), pp 1907–1916 DOI: 10.1021/ci300075z