XML Data Package
XML Data Package (XDP) is an XML file format created by Adobe Systems in 2003. It is
intended to be an XML-based companion to PDF. It allows PDF content and/or Adobe
XML Forms Architecture (XFA) resources to be packaged within an XML container.
XML Data Package (XDP)
Filename extension .xdp
Internet application/vnd.adobe.x
media type
Developed by Adobe Systems
Latest release 2.0
Container for PDF, XFA
Contained by PDF
Extended from XML
Several products by Adobe, most notably its LiveCycle ES Suite, use files in XDP format.
XDP is XML 1.0 compliant. The XDP may be a standalone document or it may in turn be
carried inside a PDF document.[2]
XDP provides a mechanism for packaging form components within a surrounding XML
container. An XDP can also package a PDF file, along with XML form and template data.[3]
When the XFA (XML Forms Architecture) grammars used for an XFA form are moved from
one application to another, they must be packaged as an XML Data Package.[2] The
format of an XFA resource in PDF is described by the XML Data Package Specification.[4]
The types of XDP content defined in XFA specification include PDF, XFA template, XML
configuration information (XCI), dataSet, sourceSet, XSLT style sheet, XFDF (form data)
and undocumented packets (such as those used to communicate events to a Form
Server).[2]
References
1. IANA Application Media Types -
Vendor Tree - vnd.adobe.xdp+xml (http
s://www.iana.org/assignments/media-
types/application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xm
l) , retrieved 2010-02-22
2. XML Forms Architecture (XFA)
Specification Version 2.5 (http://partne
rs.adobe.com/public/developer/en/xm
l/xfa_spec_2_5.pdf) (PDF), 2007-06-
08, retrieved 2010-02-19
3. Adobe Systems Incorporated. "Adobe
XML Forms Architecture (XFA)" (http
s://web.archive.org/web/20091223030
550/http://partners.adobe.com/public/
developer/xml/index_arch.html) .
Archived from the original (http://partn
ers.adobe.com/public/developer/xml/i
ndex_arch.html) on 2009-12-23.
Retrieved 2010-02-19.
4. Adobe Systems Incorporated (2008-
07-01), Document Management –
Portable Document Format – Part 1:
PDF 1.7, First Edition (http://www.adob
e.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF3200
0_2008.pdf) (PDF), retrieved
2010-02-19
External links
Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA)
(http://partners.adobe.com/public/d
eveloper/xml/index_arch.html)
Archived (https://web.archive.org/we
b/20091223030550/http://partners.a
dobe.com/public/developer/xml/inde
x_arch.html) 2009-12-23 at the
Wayback Machine
XML Data Package Specification (htt
p://partners.adobe.com/public/devel
oper/en/xml/xdp_2.0.pdf) from
Adobe Systems (version 2.0 As of
January 2007)
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