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In [[computing]], '''Resource Directory Description Language''' ('''RDDL''') is an extension of [[XHTML]] Basic 1.0. An RDDL document, called a Resource Directory, provides a package of information about some target. The targets which RDDL was designed to describe are [[XML]] Namespaces.

RDDL is designed to allow both human readers and software robots to find any sort of resource associated with a particular namespace. Instead of putting one thing at the end of a namespace [[URI]], RDDL puts a document there that lists all the machine-processable documents that might be available, including, but not limited to:

* [[Document Type Definition|DTD]]s

* DTDs

* Schemas[[XML schema|Schema]]s in a variety of languages (including [[RELAX]], [[Schematron]], the [[XML Schema|W3C Schema language]], [[TREX]], and others)

* [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]], [[XSLT]], and other style sheets

* Specification documents