This version is out of date, covering development from v8.0.0 to v8.x.x. It is maintained here only for inbound reference links from elsewhere. It is no longer actively updated.

Jump to the current version of aTbRef

Tinderbox v8 Icon

item tag

The item tag is used to contain a single note (or similar object) of data:

<item ID="3444070141" Creator="John Doe">[nested outline objects or current item attribute tags]</item> 

The item tag has two attributes:

Example:

<item ID="3444070141" Creator="John Doe" proto="Person" ></item> 

Besides nested outline objects, the item may enclose the following per-item attribute-related tags:

Attributes (default and locally-valued) and composites (if any) precede the two $Text-related tags (if any text). Thus nested objects are the last elements in the item element before its closing tag.

Attributes, other than the defaults listed below are only written to file if they hold locally set values. Attributes that use preference-default or prototype-inherited values are not stored as these values are calculated on the fly during use. For an item, the following default (intrinsic) attributes are always stored: