From 7f81fee248f616adf65bd5ac23350e8b04ae1eb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martyn Gigg <martyn.gigg@stfc.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 09:54:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update the IDF documentation to include xsd attributes
Refs #11463
---
.../docs/source/concepts/InstrumentDefinitionFile.rst | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Code/Mantid/docs/source/concepts/InstrumentDefinitionFile.rst b/Code/Mantid/docs/source/concepts/InstrumentDefinitionFile.rst
index 01aa6d96f88..acdf04823d6 100644
--- a/Code/Mantid/docs/source/concepts/InstrumentDefinitionFile.rst
+++ b/Code/Mantid/docs/source/concepts/InstrumentDefinitionFile.rst
@@ -162,18 +162,23 @@ For information on how to define geometric shapes see
Top level <instrument>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-<instrument> is the top level XML element of an IDF. It takes attributes, two of
+<instrument> is the top level XML element of an IDF. It takes attributes, three of
which must be included. An example is
.. code-block:: xml
- <instrument name="ARCS"
+ <instrument xmlns="http://www.mantidproject.org/IDF/1.0"
+ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+ xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mantidproject.org/IDF/1.0 http://schema.mantidproject.org/IDF/1.0/IDFSchema.xsd"
+ name="ARCS"
valid-from="1900-01-31 23:59:59"
valid-to="2100-01-31 23:59:59"
last-modified="2010-10-12 08:54:07.279621">
Of the four attributes in the example above
+- xmlns, xmlns:xsi, xsi:schemaLocation are required attributes that can
+ be copied verbatim as above
- name is (at present) optional, although it is recommended to specify
something sensible
- valid-from is compulsory and is the date from which the IDF is valid
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