Appendix B. Campbell Scientific File Formats
B.1.7.3.1 The head Element
This element contains the meta-data or descriptive data for the table. It does not
have any attributes and has exactly two sub-elements, environment and fields.
B.1.7.3.1.1 The environment Element
This element contains sub-elements that provide information about the station
that generated the data and the program running on it. These elements include
the following:
station-name ─ Specifies the name of the station that generated the data.
This element must be present.
table-name ─ Specifies the name of the table as given in the datalogger
program. This element must be present.
model ─ Specifies the model number of the station. This element may be
omitted if the information is not available.
serial-no ─ Specifies the serial number of the datalogger. This element
may be omitted if the information is not available.
os-version ─ Specifies the version of the operating system running in the
datalogger. This element may be omitted if the information is not available.
dld-name ─ Specifies the file name of the program that is running in the
datalogger. This element may be omitted if the information is not available.
dld-sig ─ Specifies the signature of the program running in the datalogger.
This element may be omitted if the information is not available.
B.1.7.3.1.2 The fields Element
This element specifies the meta-data for all of the fields in the header file. It
will contain a collection of one or more field elements. One for each scalar
element in the file (strings are considered to be scalar elements).
B.1.7.3.1.2.1 The field Element
This element specifies the meta-data for a single field. It is an empty element
(contains no child elements) but defines the following attributes:
name This attribute is required and specifies the name of the field. If the field
is part of an array, the name will include the array subscripts as a comma
separated list of integers within parentheses.
type This required attribute specifies the data type for the field. This data type
is a string that corresponds with a subset of XML Schema data types. The
following values will be used within csixml:
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