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External representation

The thematic catalogs have an external representation that allow easy transportation of their content. The format used is XML. The file containing the XML representation of a catalog is named with the .rdf extension. When the XML/RDF conventions will be better supported the catalogs will eventually use these conventions, hence the extension. You should not invest too much on the current XML format because it is likely to change drastically in the next few monthes. Nevertheless, we've found very convinient to have a text representation of the catalogs, specially for importing data from various sources.


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