Collection Definition Language (CDL)

• What is CDL? It is

  • a case-sensitive, typed, procedural and modular language
  • a compilation language

• Why invent a new language?

  • CDL combines the tasks of describing document organization and text preprocessing into one
  • More declarative
  • Highly modular design extends the use of a `wrapper' into the realm of information presentation
  • Uniform access of heterogeneous data