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5 Symbols

   List of symbols/abbreviations

   In general, the XTCE specification favors expressive, fully spelled out terms over abbreviated notation. The exceptions are modifiers used as prefixes or postfixes to objects used within the schema, and of course ‘XTCE’ the name of the standard itself. These terms are listed below.

   Abbreviations


   Prefixes and Postfixes

Meta

Set

List

Ref

A description. For example a MetaCommand is a command description.
An unordered collection. For example a MetaCommandSet is an unordered collection of command descriptions.
An ordered collection. For example an ArgumentList is an ordered collection of arguments.
A reference (by name) to an object defined elsewhere in the XML document. For example an ArgumentRef is a named reference to an Argument defined elsewhere.