Encoding

The begin/end elements nest the information encoded by the Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), and these elements serve as the basis where the name or value pair is attributed. Meanwhile, the Meta Data Services supports exporting and importing of meta data through the Meta Data Coalition (MDC) Open Information Model (OIM) XML Encoding format, thus certain rules for generating XML elements that map to information model elements are defined by XML Encoding format. This format is published by the MDC and implemented in Meta Data Services to support the exchange of Meta data. In addition, a dual interface supports the export as well as the import using XML.

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In accordance with the rule on XML encoding format, XML offers several basic concepts in encoding information. The Character Set and Data Types describes the character set and data types for encoding used in an XML rule. Further, Top-Level Element describes the element that encapsulates all transfer information in an XML document while the Elements and Attributes describes the begin/end tag pairs and the content encapsulated between them. Topics, such as Namespaces and Nested Lists, show the basic structure of the Open Information Model (OIM) namespace hierarchy to ensure unique elements in an XML document. Those also show the ordered or unordered sets of elements that can be used to represent hierarchies of elements respectively. Meanwhile, connections between elements to represent network structures of elements are described by Element References while extended vendor-specific Meta data types are described by Extensibility.