smel

Special SMEL-directives

Next to user-defined directives, the SMEL-standard has some special directives that are intercepted by the parser and treated separately.

Table of contents

<smel> - <smel:meta> - <smel:link> - <smel:ns>

<smel>

The smel-directive is called the SMEL-declaration, and is the first line of every SMEL-document. It has the following attributes:

version

The version of the used SMEL-standard. This should be "1.1" for SMEL 1.1.

ns

The default namespace for the document.

app

The application used for reading the document.

<smel version="1.1" ns="smels" app="SmelSchema/1.0">
<smel version="1.1" ns="smelt" app="SmelTransform/1.0">

<smel:meta>

The meta-directive contains metadata about the SMEL-document. The attributes of this directive are free to chose.

<smel:meta author="Tommy Carlier" last_update="18/11/2003">
<smel:meta generator="Notepad" description="Description of the document">

<smel:link>

The link-directive links other resources to the SMEL-document. This directive has the following attributes:

rel

The relationship of the linked resource to the SMEL-document.

type

The type of the linked resource.

ref

A URL of the resource.

target

If the relationship is transform, then target is the type of file the transformation will produce.

<smel:link rel="schema" type="text/smel+schema" ref="files/doc.smels">
<smel:link rel="transform" type="text/smel+transform" ref="files/doc2htm.smelt" target="text/html">
<smel:link rel="transform" type="text/smel+transform" ref="files/doc2svg.smelt" target="text/xml+svg">

<smel:ns>

The ns-directive is used to give more information about the used namespaces. It has the following attributes:

id

The namespace-identifier.

app

The application and version.

ref

A URL where you can find more information about the namespace.

<smel:ns id="smels" app="SmelSchema/1.0" ref="http://users.pandora.be/tommycarlier">
<smel:ns id="smelt" app="SmelTransform/1.0" ref="http://users.pandora.be/tommycarlier">