Cross Platform Interface Description Language (XPIDL) is the

interface definition language interface description language or interface definition language (IDL), is a generic term for a language that lets a program or object written in one language communicate with another program written in an unknown language. IDLs describe an inter ...

developed by Mozilla.org to specify

XPCOM Cross Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) is a cross-platform component model from Mozilla. It is similar to Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). It features multiple language bindings an ...

interfaces.Proceedings: 10th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex
/ref> It is similar to the Object Management Group's CORBA IDL. Mozilla provides a utility xpidl that converts the IDL files into ''XPCOM Type Library'' (.xpt) files.

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* , developer.mozilla.org
Adding XPIDL interface files to the build process
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