Minsky's schema

The format for the Minksy file (.mky extension) is documented as an XML schema at http://minsky.sf.net/minsky.xsd. The current schema version is 1.

A UML representation of the schema can be found here.

By following this schema, you can create other tools that can interact with Minsky.

Notes:

• Minsky does not care what order elements are presented in, although schema validators (eg xmllint) do

• Minsky does not care if elements are missing (it substitutes default values), and ignores additional elements

• Leading and trailing whitespace on element fields are trimmed.

• If an element is missing, but an attribute of the same name is present, the Minsky will use that. So the following two code snippets are handled identically:

    <Minsky schemaVersion="1">
    </Minsky>

---

    <Minsky>
      <schemaVersion>1</schemaVersion>
    </Minsky>

• The Layout vector contains optional visual layout information, so tools that do not care about layout can ignore this. In the fullness of time, Minsky will provide an auto-layout functionality to allow the import of Minsky files with patial, or even no layout information.

• The layout vector elements have entirely optional elements, except for the one mandatory element id, which refers to the id of the minskyModel element the layout element is describing.