Naming Conventions

Unless otherwise indicated, structs definition names have certain requirements and optional conventions.

Names are limited to 128 characters and may not include the following reserved characters:

! (excalamation point)
? (question mark)
$ (dollar sign)
: (colon)
; (semicolon)
# (number symbol)
* (asteriks)
@ (at symbol)
, (comma)

In cases where names are used by API actions to lookup definitions, the @ character may be used to indicate an external ID instead of a plain name.

For matching purposes names are case insensitive and normalized with any leading/trailing whitespace removed and any internal whitespace represented by a single underscore character. For example:

"v_mon" = "V  Mon" = " V MON "

XINA tools will interpret the period character (.) to indicate a tree structure relationship, and brackets ([]) to indicate an array of values. This is entirely presentational, not functional.