cansas1d documentation

Disclaimer

This description is meant to inform the community how to layout the information within the XML files. However, should the information in this document and the canSAS 1D SAS XML Schema differ, the XML Schema will be deemed to have the most correct description of the standard.

General Layout of the XML Data

• SASroot
  • SASentry
    • Title
    • Run
    • SASdata
    • SASsample
    • SASinstrument
    • SASprocess
    • SASprocess
    • SASprocess...
    • SASnote
    • SASnote
    • SASnote...
  • SASentry
  • SASentry
  • SASentry ...

Definition of terms

term

quantity
description

aperture

[0..inf]
describes an aperture position, size, and shape

beam_center

[..]

beam_shape

[..]

beam_size

[..]

date

[..]

description

[..]

details

[..]

distance

[..]

I

[..]

ID

[..]

Idata

[..]

Idev

[..]

name

[..]

offset

[..]

pitch

[..]

pixel_size

[..]

Q

[..]

Qdev

[..]

Qfwhm

[..]

Qmean

[..]

radiation

[..]

roll

[..]

rotation

[..]

Run

[..]

SAScollimation

[..]

SASdetector

[..]

SASentry

[1..inf]
Describes a single 1-D SAS data scan.
Time-resolved experiments or others with series data should put each step in the series into its own SASentry.

SASinstrument

[1..1]
describes the SAS instrument used to provide this SASentry

SASnote

[0..inf]
allows for other information to be added to a SASentry

SASprocess

[0..inf]
describes a data processing or analysis step

SASprocessnote

[..]

SASroot

[1..1]
(required) root node of the canSAS 1-D reduced SAS data file in XML

SASsample

[1..1]
describes the sample

SASsource

[..]

SDD

[..]

Shadowfactor

[..]

size

[..]

temperature

[..]

term

[..]

thickness

[..]

Title

[..]

transmission

[..]

wavelength_max

[..]

wavelength_min

[..]

wavelength_spread

[..]

wavelength

[..]

x

[..]

y

[..]

yaw

[..]

z

[..]