Xml Identifier; General Structure; Instruction/Identifier Description - Siemens SINUMERIK 808D ADVANCED Series Commissioning Manual

14.6

XML identifier

14.6.1

General structure

Structure and instructions of the script file for dialog configuration
All dialog configurations should be stored in the DialogGui tag.
<DialogGui>
...
</DialogGui>
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<DialogGui>
...
<FORM name ="Hello_World">
<INIT>
<CAPTION>Hello World</CAPTION>
</INIT>
...
</FORM>
</DialogGui>
Instructions
The language offers the following instructions for executing conditional instructions and loop controls:
● For loop
● While loop
● Do while loop
● Conditional processing
● Switch and case instructions
● Operator controls in a dialog form
● Softkey descriptions
● Define variables
For a detailed description of instructions, see Instruction/identifier description (Page 288).
14.6.2

Instruction/identifier description

The following XML tags are defined for generating dialogs and menus, and for executing program sequences:
Note
Attribute values that are in quotation marks "<...>" should be replaced by the currently used expressions.
Example:
<DATA_LIST action="read/write/append" id="<list name>">
is programmed as follows:
<DATA_LIST action="read/write/append" id="my datalist">
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