Documentation for Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®)
Definition Type: AttributeGroup
Name: objectAttributes
Namespace: http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/system_characteristics
Containing Schema: system-characteristics-schema.xsd
Documentation:
The possible attributes for an element in the object section of an item. The optional datatype attribute can be either 'literal' or 'pattern match'. A value of pattern match is for reporting information about the collection of objects associated with a specific pattern. Helps answers the question 'How do I know that everything that matches this pattern is in the SC file?' The pattern would be presented and the status would reflect the data collection as a whole. Then each matching object would exists on their own with a datatype of literal.
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Drilldown into datatype in schema system-characteristics-schema_xsdXSD Diagram of objectAttributes in schema system-characteristics-schema_xsd (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®))
Collapse XSD Schema Code: 
<xsd:attributeGroup name="objectAttributes">
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation>The possible attributes for an element in the object section of an item.  The optional datatype attribute can be either 'literal' or 'pattern match'.  A value of pattern match is for reporting information about the collection of objects associated with a specific pattern.  Helps answers the question 'How do I know that everything that matches this pattern is in the SC file?'  The pattern would be presented and the status would reflect the data collection as a whole.  Then each matching object would exists on their own with a datatype of literal.</xsd:documentation>
        <xsd:appinfo>
            <attributes>[datatype]</attributes>
        </xsd:appinfo>
    </xsd:annotation>
    <xsd:attribute name="datatype" type="system_characteristics:objectDatatypes" use="optional" default="literal" />
</xsd:attributeGroup>
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Name Type Default Value Use
datatype system_characteristics:datatype literal Optional
Documentation for Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®)

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