</GPP_A>
</flat-profile>
• Unrecognized element names are ignored.
Parameter Properties
These properties apply to the parameters:
• Any parameters that are not specified by a profile are left unchanged in the phone.
• Unrecognized parameters are ignored.
• If the Open format profile contains multiple occurrences of the same parameter tag, the last such occurrence
overrides any earlier ones. To avoid inadvertent override of configuration values for a parameter, we
recommend that each profile specify at most one instance of a parameter.
• The last profile processed takes precedence. If multiple profiles specify the same configuration parameter,
the value of the latter profile takes precedence.
String Formats
These properties apply to the formatting of the strings:
• Comments are allowed through standard XML syntax.
<!-- My comment is typed here -->
• Leading and trailing white space is allowed for readability but is removed from the parameter value.
• New lines within a value are converted to spaces.
• An XML header of the form <? ?> is allowed, but the phone ignores it.
• To enter special characters, use basic XML character escapes, as shown in the following table.
XML Escape SequenceSpecial Character
&& (ampersand)
<< (less than)
>> (greater than)
'’ (apostrophe)
"” (double quote)
In the following example, character escapes are entered to represent the greater than and less than symbols
that are required in a dial plan rule. This example defines an information hotline dial plan that sets the
<Dial_Plan_1_> parameter (Admin Login > advanced > Voice > Ext (n)) equal to (S0 <:18005551212>).
<flat-profile>
<Dial_Plan_1_>
(S0 <:18005551212>)
</Dial_Plan_1_>
</flat-profile>
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