DTS SLICE MICRO - Appendix G: Sliceware XML File Format

SLICE User’s Manual July 2017
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Appendix G: SLICEWare XML File Format
Overview
The .DTS file is an XML based file that contains information about the overall test and the
individual channels. Some of the information may be redundant with information stored in the
binary channel header.
The attributes and relationships of each XML node are described below.
XML Structure
<Test>
The Test tag is the outer most tag. It contains the following attributes and describes details
common to the entire test.
Name
Data Type
Description
Id
String
The name of the test, typically the same as the .DTS file
name
Description
String
The description of the test provided by the user
InlineSerializedData
Boolean
Guid
Windows UUID
string
A unique identifier assigned to each event
<Modules>
Within the Test node will be a list of modules contained within a <Modules></Modules> tag. A
module corresponds to a data acquisition system—for example, an entire Stack. Each module
will have its own <Module> tag with the following attributes:
Name
Data
Type
Description
AaFilterRateHz
Integer
The name cut off frequency of the hardware anti-
alias filter used during the test
Number
Integer
A sequential number assigned to each module
within the test
SerialNumber
String
The factory assigned serial number of the Base
NumberOfSamples
Integer
The number of samples stored in each channel file.
This will be fewer than the number of samples
originally requested by the user if the data has been
subsampled or if only a portion of the data was
downloaded.