Attributes for the <plugin> Element

The <plugin> element has the following attributes:

• name – The name of the plug-in. The name attribute has a maximum length of 64. Plug-in names follow a structure similar to com.sun.solaris.

• description – An optional description of the plug-in.

• vendor – The provider of the plug-in.

• version – The version of the plug-in. Version numbers follow the standard x.y (major.minor) format.

• schemaVersion – A required attribute of type schemaVersion, which is the version of the plug-in XML schema being used. The only permitted values are 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2.

  The 5.2 version of the schema is backward compatible with the 5.0 and 5.1 versions.

• previousVersion – An optional attribute that is the version of this plug-in expected to be on the system. If not specified, an initial install is assumed. If specified, the value represents the version from which the plug-in is to be upgraded.

• xmlns – A required string that has the following value:

  http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS

• xmlns:xsi – A required string that has the following value:

  http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance

• xsi:schemaLocation – An optional string that has the following recommended value:

  http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS plugin.xsd