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Naming Conventions

Unless otherwise indicated, structs definition names inhave structs employ severalcertain 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,example:

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