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Standards and conventions

  • Date:
    03/06/2024
  • Modified:
    11/03/2025
  • Category:
    Dedicon MONET

Number of files

Suppliers are required to deliver a single XML file for MONET conversions.
The number of image files delivered is required to correspond to the number of images chosen for reproduction, in accordance with the guidelines for Images.

XML file naming convention

  • MONET files must be given the production number (dtb:uid) provided when ordered and have the .xml extension.
  • The file extension must be lower case.
  • Images must be delivered in a subfolder “img”.

XML declaration and encoding

The following xml declaration must be used:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

MONET documents must be saved using UTF-8 character encoding and not include a byte order mark (BOM). Exceptions are hexadecimal characters for hyphenation, arrows and phonetics mentioned in Symbols and special characters. Diacritics for accents, such as à, é, and ö should be represented using UTF-8 characters.

Namespace declaration

<document xmlns="https://schema.dedicon.nl/monet/v1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="https://schema.dedicon.nl/monet/v1 
https://schema.dedicon.nl/monet/v1/monet_1.0.0.xsd" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">