8.5.1 Format and definition of the overall Web transaction file

Organization of this subsection

(1) Format
(2) Definition

(1) Format

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE TRANSACTION_LIST SYSTEM "espwebtrans.dtd">
<TRANSACTION_LIST>
  <TRANSACTION>
    <TRANSACTION_PARAM>
      <!-- TRANSACTION_PARAM -->
    </TRANSACTION_PARAM>
 
    <STEP>
      <!-- STEP -->
    </STEP>
      ...
  </TRANSACTION>
  ...
</TRANSACTION_LIST>

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(2) Definition

(a) XML declaration and document type declaration

Specify the XML declaration on the first line and the document type declaration on the second line. Specify exactly as shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="encoding-type" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE TRANSACTION_LIST SYSTEM "espwebtrans.dtd">

Specify either of Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP, UTF-8, US-ASCII, or GB18030^# as the encoding type, and then declare the Web transaction file with the specified encoding type.

#: GB18030 supports only in Chinese OS and you cannot use the 4 bytes characters.

(b) XML definition

Table 8‒24: XML definition
XML tag	Mandatory	Role of tag and value to be specified
`<TRANSACTION_LIST>...</TRANSACTION_LIST>`	Y	Indicates a list of transactions. This tag contains one or more `<TRANSACTION>` tags. A new `<TRANSACTION>` tag can start immediately after a `</TRANSACTION>` tag.
`<TRANSACTION>...</TRANSACTION>`	Y	Indicates a single item of transaction information. This tag contains one `<TRANSACTION_PARAM>` tag and one or more `<STEP>` tags.
`<TRANSACTION_PARAM>...</TRANSACTION_PARAM>`	Y	Indicates the parameters that define transaction measurement conditions. This tag contains the `<TRANSACTION_NAME>`, `<TRANSACTION_COMMENT>`, `<DEFAULT_CHARSET>`, `<HTML_OUT>`, `<IGNORE_EMBEDDED_RESOURCE>`, `<NO_CACHE>`, `<KEEP_ALIVE>`, `<DEFAULT_PROXY>`, and `<USER_AGENT>` tags. Some of these tags can be omitted. For details, see 8.5.2(1) <TRANSACTION_PARAM> tag.
`<STEP>...</STEP>`	Y	Indicates an information item for a single step. This tag contains the `<STEP_ID>`, `<TITLE>`, `<FRAME_NAME>`, `<CHARSET>`, `<REQUEST>`, `<WEB_AUTH>`, `<PROXY>`, `<RESPONSE_PATTERN>`, `<VARIABLE>`, `<START_SCOPE>`, and `<END_SCOPE>` tags. For details, see 8.5.2(2) <STEP> tag.

Legend:: Y: Mandatory item

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