Attribute Internals

This page documents the internal structure of the attribute handling. It aimed at giving created a concept of an AttributePart, which is stored by the underlying storage model, whatever that might be.

Attribute parts are are textual strings however depending on 'type' of the Attribute they belong to they may encode another meaning.

Additionally it is possible for an attribute (most notably

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attributes) to comprise of multiple parts.

Each part is named with the attribute name followed by the attribute type name, followed optionally by any type specific sub-part identifiers.

For more information see NameSpace