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Portable Application Description

Portable Application Description (PAD) is a machine-readable document format that allows software authors to provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a standard format—an XML schema that allows webmasters and program librarians to automate adding new program listings and updating existing listings in their catalog. PAD saves…

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Portable Application Description

Nodes17
Edges16
Triples12
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.117647
Components1

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Portable Application Description

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related to External links · 12
Portable Application Description → AppVisor, Archived, Association, CS1, July, March, Online Platform, PAD, Retrieved, Software Professionals, The Official PAD, The Official PAD Repository

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pad software specification asp xml file appvisor format webmasters com application new authors operating systems field version submission 2024 portable

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksPAD0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksAssociation0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksSoftware Professionals0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksRetrieved0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksJuly0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksCS10.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksAppVisor0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksThe Official PAD0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksOnline Platform0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksArchived0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksMarch0.60section
Portable Application Descriptionrelated to External linksThe Official PAD Repository0.60section

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