This xml format was designed to be efficient to write and to reliably configure Oxygen and the required measurement equipment for a specific task. It is a streamlined alternative to the native .dms (DEWETRON Measurement Setup) files, which would need very detailed knowledge of Oxygen internals to update or create manually. Some OXYGEN features are not yet supported in this format.

For performance reasons, most XML processing in OXYGEN is not Namespace-aware, even though a default namespace is sometimes declared in exported XML fragments as a hint! When writing or generating a setup file according to this specification, all element and attribute names have to be used as defined here and without additional qualification. Therefore a colon may appear only in names that were derived from identifiers in OXYGEN, like ID:TRION-BoardId.

Overview

The basic structure of setup files is shown below, and all the elements will be described in detail in the following sections. All of the children are technically optional, and some of them may occur multiple times.

<MeasurementSetup>
    <HeaderData/>
    <Nodes/>
    <Sync/>
    <Channel/>
    <Recording/>
    <Triggering/>
    <Screen/>
    <Export/>
</MeasurementSetup>