Parameter Properties; String Formats - Cisco 8800 Series Manual

Parameter Properties

• Unrecognized element names are ignored.
Parameter Properties
These properties apply to the parameters:
• Any parameters that are not specified by a profile are left unchanged in the phone.
• Unrecognized parameters are ignored.
• If the Open format profile contains multiple occurrences of the same parameter tag, the last such occurrence
• The last profile processed takes precedence. If multiple profiles specify the same configuration parameter,

String Formats

These properties apply to the formatting of the strings:
• Comments are allowed through standard XML syntax.
• Leading and trailing white space is allowed for readability but is removed from the parameter value.
• New lines within a value are converted to spaces.
• An XML header of the form
• To enter special characters, use basic XML character escapes, as shown in the following table.
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</GPP_A>
</flat-profile>
overrides any earlier ones. To avoid inadvertent override of configuration values for a parameter, we
recommend that each profile specify at most one instance of a parameter.
the value of the latter profile takes precedence.
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Special Character
& (ampersand)
< (less than)
> (greater than)
' (apostrophe)
" (double quote)
In the following example, character escapes are entered to represent the greater than and less than symbols
that are required in a dial plan rule. This example defines an information hotline dial plan that sets the
<Dial_Plan_1_> parameter (Admin Login > advanced > Voice > Ext (n)) equal to (S0 <:18005551212>).
<flat-profile>
<Dial_Plan_1_>
(S0 &lt;:18005551212&gt;)
</Dial_Plan_1_>
</flat-profile>
is allowed, but the phone ignores it.
<? ?>
XML Escape Sequence
&amp;
&lt;
&gt;
&apos;
&quot;
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