Syntaxon Thesaurus File

 

A syntaxon thesaurus file stores a pool of syntaxonomic items, arranged in a hierarchical way. Each <syntaxon/> tag can have other nested syntaxa. This syntaxa information can be used from relevé data, because there exist the <original_syntaxon/> and <current_syntaxon/> in the <releve/> (See Releve Table file). Thus, one can select just those relevés belonging to a specific syntaxonomical unit.

Syntaxon thesaurus files have XML file format. In each file there is just one <syntaxon_pool> tag, which can contain an unlimited number of syntaxa.

 

Syntaxon Thesaurus file example

 

Syntaxon Thesaurus tags

<syntaxon_pool/> : Each thesaurus files contains just one syntaxon pool. In turn, this <syntaxon_pool/> is the parent tag for as many <syntaxon/> tags as needed.

<syntaxon/> : Describes a syntaxon. Each syntaxon tag contains as many syntaxon subtags as needed according to its children syntaxa. The attributes for a syntaxon tag are:

1) name: the syntaxon name.

2) namecode: code for this syntaxon name, which is unique.

3) icode: internal code which can join synonym syntaxa.

4) level, the syntaxonomical level: Class, Order, Alliance, Sub-alliance, Association, Sub-association, Facies.

<author/> : Describes the authorship of the syntaxon name. Just one author field is stored for each syntaxon.