Properties

Each xbook must define a properties file called properties.xml with the following format:

  <xbook>
  <name>xbook name</name>
  <description>the xbook description that will be published in the xbook
  directory service</description>
  <version>a version number</version>
  <date>if this is a subxbook, this is the date it was instantiated</date>
  <instances>number of sub-xbooks</instances>
  <subxbook>name of sub-xbook</subxbook>
  <results>name of output file</results>
  <parameter name="name of an xbook input parameter">
  <value>user's value of the xbook parameters</value>
  </parameter>
  <mapfile>
  <dn>user dn</dn>
  ...
  <dn>userN dn</dn>
  </mapfile>
  </xbook>

Currently, only the following tags are required: xbook, name, description, version. See Section 2.3.0.2 for a more detailed discussion.