1.1 Glossary

This document uses the following terms:

MultiByteInt31: A structure defined in [MC-NBFX] section 2.1.2 that encodes small integer values in fewer bytes than large integer values.

record: The fundamental unit of information in the .NET Binary Format: XML Data Structure encoded as a variable length series of bytes. [MC-NBFX] section 2 specifies the format for each type of record.

string: A structure that represents a set of characters ([MC-NBFX] section 2.1.3).

XML: The Extensible Markup Language, as described in [XML1.0].

MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.