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XPIF attributes

The job description has the usual XML attributes configuration with the following two possible tags. The general attribute composition looks like the following example:

<attribute_name syntax="syntax">

...

</attribute_name>

Attribute name

This mandatory tag defines an attribute of the job, using a relevant name, for example, "job-name".

Attribute syntax

This mandatory tag defines the syntax to use for the attribute’s value, for example, string.

Attribute syntax

Description

boolean

Related attribute has only two values: true or false.

collection

Related attribute is a container holding a set of attributes, called member attributes.

dateTime

Related attribute has the full (non-truncated) representation of the date/time value as defined in ISO 8601.

enum

Related attribute is an enumerated integer value in the range 1 to MAX and each value has an associated keyword name.

integer

Related attribute is an integer in the range MIN= -2e^31 and MAX= 2e^31-1.

keyword

Related attribute is a sequence of characters of length 1 to 255 containing only the US ASCII encoded values for lowercase letters, uppercase letters, hyphen, dot and underscore. The first character is lowercase and the keywords are US English.

mimeMediaType

Related attribute is the Internet Media Type for identifying a document format.

name

Related attribute is a user-friendly string. The maximum length of a name syntax type is 255 octets.

rangeOfInteger

Related attribute is a pair of integers that defines an inclusive range of integer values. The first integer specifies the lower bound and the second integer specifies the upper bound.

text

Related attribute is a sequence of zero or more characters encoded in a maximum of 1023 octets.

uri

Related attribute's scheme will follow a valid Uniform Resource Identifier.

1setOf

Related attribute is one or more values of the above attribute syntax types (except 1setOf itself).

Unkown attributes

The PRISMAsync Print Server ignores unknown and unsupported attributes.