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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