OSD
The Open Software Description format is a standard proposed by Marimba and Microsoft to the W3C consortium for automatic software distribution. For more details, the reader can look at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html.
OSD is implemented with XML files. For describing the dependencies among software packages, the concept of directed graph is used. Nodes represent software packages, and arcs represent the dependencies among them. An OSD file can reference another OSD file (pointing to its URL), creating large dependency graphs. OSD files can be used in HTML pages as well, embedding an object or applet tag pointing to the OSD file in the Web page.
Also the Channel Definition Format (CDF) used for “push” Web channels technology takes advantage ...
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