THESAURUS

A THESAURUS element contains the term equivalence mappings for an application.

THESAURUS is the root element for all thesaurus entries.

Note that the order of sub-elements within THESAURUS is significant. You should add sub-elements in the order in which they are listed in the format section.

For example, THESAURUS_ENTRY sub-elements appear before THESAURUS_ENTRY_ONEWAY. See the example below.

Format

<!ELEMENT THESAURUS
    ( COMMENT?
    , THESAURUS_ENTRY*
    , THESAURUS_ENTRY_ONEWAY*
    )
>

Attributes

The THESAURUS element has no attributes.

Sub-elements

The following table provides a brief overview of the THESAURUS sub-elements.

Sub-element Brief description
COMMENT Associates a comment with a parent element and preserves the comment when the file is rewritten. This element provides an alternative to using inline XML comments of the form <!-- ... -->.
THESAURUS_ENTRY Indicates a set of word forms (contained in THESAURUS_FORM elements) that are equivalent.
THESAURUS_ENTRY_ONEWAY Specifies single-direction equivalency mappings.

Example

This example shows the thesaurus entries for an application. 

<THESAURUS>
   <THESAURUS_ENTRY>
     <THESAURUS_FORM>france</THESAURUS_FORM>
     <THESAURUS_FORM>french</THESAURUS_FORM>
   </THESAURUS_ENTRY>
   <THESAURUS_ENTRY_ONEWAY>
     <THESAURUS_FORM_FROM>bike accessory</THESAURUS_FORM_FROM>
     <THESAURUS_FORM_TO>helmet</THESAURUS_FORM_TO>
     <THESAURUS_FORM_TO>pannier</THESAURUS_FORM_TO>
     <THESAURUS_FORM_TO>tire</THESAURUS_FORM_TO>
   </THESAURUS_ENTRY_ONEWAY>
</THESAURUS>