Documentation for Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®)
Definition Type: Element
Name: reference
Namespace: http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-system-characteristics-5
Type: oval-sc:ReferenceType
Containing Schema: oval-system-characteristics-schema.xsd
MinOccurs 0
MaxOccurs unbounded
Abstract
Documentation:
the optional reference element links the collected item found by the data collection engine and the global OVAL Object. A global OVAL Object my have multiple matching items on a system. For example a global file object that is a pattern match might match 10 different files on a specific system. In this case, there would be 10 reference elements, one for each of the files found on the system.
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Drilldown into item_ref in schema oval-system-characteristics-schema_xsd Drilldown into ReferenceType in schema oval-system-characteristics-schema_xsdXSD Diagram of reference in schema oval-system-characteristics-schema_xsd (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®))
Collapse XSD Schema Code: 
<xsd:element name="reference" type="oval-sc:ReferenceType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation>the optional reference element links the collected item found by the data collection engine and the global OVAL Object. A global OVAL Object my have multiple matching items on a system. For example a global file object that is a pattern match might match 10 different files on a specific system. In this case, there would be 10 reference elements, one for each of the files found on the system.</xsd:documentation>
    </xsd:annotation>
</xsd:element>
Collapse Child Attributes:
Name Type Default Value Use
item_ref oval-sc:item_ref Required
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Documentation for Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®)

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