OID Repository


Submit OID descriptions

The form below enables you to submit XML files containing OID descriptions. Please indicate full path and name of the file you want to submit and make sure your XML file conform to our XML schema for OID descriptions.

Depending on the following 3 cases, the result of the submission is then displayed on a new page:

if the description corresponds to an existing OID of the database, it is automatically forwarded to the webmaster who will check that you have provided any information that should be kept in the database;
if the OID doesn't exist in the database but the parent OID is present in the database, it is created but the description won't be available until it is validated by the webmaster (a notification will be sent to you by email);
if the parent OID isn't defined in the database or in your file, an error message is produced.

XML schema for OID descriptions

XML schema for the allowed subset of XHTML

File name (a single XML file containing all the OID descriptions, or a zipped archive of XML files):


	Give your email address if you want to receive an email with the results of your submission (when the submitted XML file is big, the time-out of your browser can be reached before the resulting webpage is produced and you then miss the error messages)

`-ignoreNL`	Ignore all newline characters used in text descriptions between XML tags. By default, newline characters are turned into `<br>` elements when displayed in HTML. When this box is checked, newline characters are replaced with a whitespace.

The example below gives an XML document that conforms to our XML schema and contains the description of one OID (namely, {itu-t(0) recommendation(0) a(1)}).

There can be more than one <oid> block per <oid-database> document.
A father OID doesn't need to be described prior to its subsequent nodes, for the tool will sort the blocks before adding information into the database.
You will notice the <submitter> part that contains information about you. This information won't be displayed when people will query the database; it is only intended to keep you informed if the OID descriptions you submitted are updated in the future.
Also notice that a subset of XHTML is allowed inside plain text for the <description>, <information> and <address> elements. URLs (such as http://www.whitehouse.gov) that don't appear within an <a> tag will be hyperlinked when displayed. HTML entity references (such as "é") are not supported by default; please use decimal codes (such as "é") or include the needed XHTML entity references in a <!DOCTYPE...> block at the beginning of your XML document (see example below).
More detail about what is allowed for each XML tag is given as <documentation> tags in the XML schema. Please have a look at it.

<!DOCTYPE oid-database [
    <!ENTITY eacute "&#233;"> <!-- latin small letter e with acute -->
]>  <!-- please add XHTML entity references if needed -->

<oid-database>
  <submitter>
  	<first-name>John</first-name>
  	<last-name>Smith</last-name>
	    <email>john.smith@myhost.com</email>
  </submitter>
  <oid>
 	<asn1-notation>{itu-t(0) recommendation(0) a(1)}</asn1-notation>
 	<synonymous-identifier>a-rec</synonymous-identifier>
 	<synonymous-identifier>a-std</synonymous-identifier>
 	<description><b>Series A Recommendations</b> - Organization of the
     work of <i>MyCompany</i>.</description>
 	<information>More <i>information</i> can be found in 
     <a href="http://www.url.com/info.html">ITU-T Rec. A.999</a>
  </information>
 	<current-registrant>
	      <first-name>John</first-name>
	      <last-name>Doe</last-name>
	      <email>john.doe@dummy.com</email>
        <address>White House, Washington D.C.
          http://www.whitehouse.gov
        </address>
	      <modification-date>2002-05-25</modification-date>
 	</current-registrant>
  </oid>
</oid-database>

When users query the database, the above description will be rendered as shown on the display example.

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