Batch File Format

The batch file is an XML file with the extension .xjnl, and can be edited using a text editor. It is best to use an XML-aware text editor that will allow you to shrink/expand elements in the file and/or check the validity of the file. An XML file is a human readable file containing so-called “elements” to describe objects by using “tags”. tags can be either starting tags <XXXX>, ending tags </XXXX> or empty-element tags <XXXX/>.

This is an example of the simplest (empty) batch file:

<?xml version="1" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<batch>
    <info>
        <title>Empty</title>
        <application>Isatis.neo</application>
        <date>2018-10-22T16:12:37</date>
        <summary>Example of an empty batch file.</summary>
    </info>
</batch>

<?xml …> is a non compulsory line that indicates the text encoding of the file (useful for extended Latin characters for example).

<batch> This is the root element of a batch file. The batch element must enclose the whole file.

<info>... contains the information about the batch file.</info>

<title> a title for the batch (by default equivalent to the file name with its extension)</title> (not used anymore: the title is now the same as the batch file name)

<date> creation date of the batch </date>

<summary> Some user provided information about the batch operations</summary>

</info>

</batch>