COLONGRP Description:

  Doctype Classes
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     Doctype (Generic Document Type)
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     COLONDOC
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     COLONGRP

COLONGRP is a master colondoc doctype that supports some structure (sub-tags). If it inspired by, as well as parent of, DIF.

The contents of the first field should be unique. It is used as a unique identification string for the record, eg:
Entry_ID: 1013DS-A.cdf
would specify 1013DS-A.cdf as the unique key for the record.

The Field Name Group is a reserved name. It supports some structure via Groupings.

Group: GroupName
        Field:  Value
        Field:  Value
        Field:  Value
End_Group

Groups may contains groups. For each Group one must specify End_Group to inform the parser where the end of the group is.

Its probably best understood by looking at the example record below.

Group:  Technical_Contact
        First_name:  Frances
        Middle_name:  S.
        Last_name:  Hotchkiss
        Phone:  508-457-2242
        Phone:  FAX 508-457-2310
        Group:  Address
                384 Woods Hole Road
                Quissett Campus
                Woods Hole, MA  02543-1598
                USA
        End_Group
End_Group

The fields

Technical_Contact

contains everything from First_name to the End_Group in Address.

First_name

contains Frances

Middle_name

contains S.

Last_name

contains Hotchkiss

Phone

contains 508-457-2242 and FAX 508-457-2310

Address

contains everything from 384 Woods Hole Road to USA

The MIME type for Raw Records is Application/X-COLONGRP.

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