PADS

2005/06/12 by Kathleen Fisher, Robert Gruber · 1 voice · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Algorithms and Data Compression #Network Security and Intrusion Detection

paper · doi:10.1145/1064978.1065046

openalex publication_date 2005/06/12 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

PADS is a declarative data description language that allows data analysts to describe both the physical layout of ad hoc data sources and semantic properties of that data. From such descriptions, the PADS compiler generates libraries and tools for manipulating the data, including parsing routines, statistical profiling tools, translation programs to produce well-behaved formats such as Xml or those required for loading relational databases, and tools for running XQueries over raw PADS data sources. The descriptions are concise enough to serve as "living" documentation while flexible enough to describe most of the ASCII, binary, and Cobol formats that we have seen in practice. The generated parsing library provides for robust, application-specific error handling.

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