Common Elements

The common elements are prolog, document type, name, metadata, and comment. These elements, which are described below, are followed by symbol-specific information.

Prolog.
The prolog simply identifies the XML version and encoding scheme associated with the file.

Document Type.
The document type declaration states the document contains a Symbol and it identifies the associated DTD (i.e., SIDL.dtd).

Name.
The symbol name is the first element within the symbol tag pair and it identifies the name and version of the SIDL symbol that is described in the file.

Metadata.
The metadata element identifies the date the XML file was generated14.1 along with a set of three key-value pair entries. The first, source-url, identifies the URL of the SIDL file that was used to generate the XML file. The second, source-line, identifies the line within the SIDL file at which the symbol was first detected. Finally, babel-version identifies the version of Babel that was used to generate the XML file.

Comment.
The comment tag is used to save off any comment that is associated with the symbol.



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