USoft XML formats
The USoft platform has a range of tools, features and APIs for selecting, importing, exporting, moving, comparing data from and between repositories. These tools share common USoft XML formats or XML schemas: common ways of representing relational data.
| USoft XML format | Description |
|---|---|
| XML table section syntax | An XML fragment describing records within a specified table. |
| DML instruction tags | Within a table section, an XML element instructing XML.Import what to do with a record. |
| XML single-table document format | An XML document describing records within a specified table. |
| XML multi-table document format | An XML document allowed to describe records from multiple tables. |
| usoft-xml processing instruction | A processing instruction telling XML.Import what to do with a multi-table document. |
| XML representation of date values | A way of representing dates and times in XML. |
| XML representation of queries | A way of representing SQL query statements (SELECT statements) in XML. |
| Meta-Rows-Fields document format | An XML document describing the structure and output of a multi-table query with compound (aliased) output expressions. |