Documentation for Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®)
Definition Type: Element
Name: description
Namespace: http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval_results
Type: string:http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
Containing Schema: oval-results-schema.xsd
Abstract
Documentation:
This element contains a textual description of what the OVAL definition is testing for. In the case of a vulnerability class definition that references a CVE entry, it is recommended that the description is the same as the CVE description.
Collapse XSD Schema Diagram:
XSD Diagram of description in schema oval-results-schema_xsd (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®))
Collapse XSD Schema Code: 
<xsd:element name="description" type="xsd:string">
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation>This element contains a textual description of what the OVAL definition is testing for.  In the case of a vulnerability class definition that references a CVE entry, it is recommended that the description is the same as the CVE description.</xsd:documentation>
        <xsd:appinfo>
            <cardinality>1</cardinality>
            <attributes>none</attributes>
            <content>string</content>
            <parent_elements>definition</parent_elements>
            <child_elements>none</child_elements>
        </xsd:appinfo>
    </xsd:annotation>
</xsd:element>
Documentation for Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®)

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