Content

Overview

Content is the primary container within a Product that holds the research product's descriptive metadata (titles, subtitles, abstracts, synopses) together with one or more Resource references to the actual deliverable files or URLs. It bridges human-readable content description and machine-accessible payload, enabling consumers to discover, preview, and retrieve the research item across distribution platforms (sources: data-dictionary-2.4 p.34, user-guide-2.3 p.22, data-dictionary-2.5.1 p.38).

Usage

Content is a required child of Product and appears exactly once per product (sources: user-guide-2.3 p.22, level-one-2.3 p.9). Its only mandatory child is Title; optional descriptive children include SubTitle, Abstract (suggested maximum 3000 characters), Synopsis (suggested maximum 300 characters for abbreviated displays), and their formatted counterparts TitleFormatted, SubTitleFormatted, AbstractFormatted, and SynopsisFormatted, which support limited HTML markup for rich display (sources: user-guide-2.1 p.22, user-guide-2.2 p.22, data-dictionary-2.4 p.12). From v2.5.1, ContentDetailsAlternativeLanguages may also be included to support multilingual content descriptions [data-dictionary-2.5.1 p.38]. Content must contain at least one Resource pointing to the research deliverable (PDF, HTML, audio, URL, etc.). General (non–Level One) usage permits multiple Resource children to represent different formats, languages, or delivery mechanisms of the same research idea, in which case one primaryIndicator should be set to Yes [data-dictionary-2.4 p.12]. Linkback deployments typically include two resources — one for the linkback URL and one for the underlying content file [linkback-implementation-guide p.6].

Rules

• MUSTContent MUST appear exactly once as a direct child of every Product.[RIXML User Guide v2.3 p.15] [RIXML User Guide v2.3 p.22] [RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.34]
• MUSTContent MUST contain a Title element; other descriptive children (SubTitle, Abstract, Synopsis, and their formatted variants) are optional.[RIXML User Guide v2.1 p.22] [RIXML User Guide v2.2 p.22] [RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.34]
• MUSTContent MUST contain at least one Resource element, and where multiple resources are present one of them SHOULD have primaryIndicator set to Yes.[RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.12] [Company Report (Advanced) Sample v2.4]↗
• MUSTFor Level One compliance, Content MUST contain exactly one Resource element describing the payload file (typically a PDF).[RIXML Level One Addendum v2.2 p.14] [RIXML Level One Addendum v2.3 p.9] [RIXML Level One Addendum v2.4 p.9] [RIXML Level One Addendum v2.5 p.9]
• SHOULDAbstract within Content has a suggested maximum length of 3000 characters and Synopsis a suggested maximum of 300 characters; these are guidance limits rather than schema-enforced constraints.[RIXML User Guide v2.1 p.22] [RIXML User Guide v2.2 p.22] [RIXML User Guide v2.3 p.22] [RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.5.1 p.38]
• SHOULDTitleFormatted within Content SHOULD be treated as optional; the v2.4 schema incorrectly declared it required, and this was corrected in v2.5.[RIXML Quarterly Update 2013 Q1 p.2]↗ [RIXML Release Notes v2.5 p.30]
• SHOULDWhen Content is rendered through vendor-supplied viewers (e.g. in linkback deployments), providers and vendors SHOULD coordinate during planning and perform end-to-end display testing across all supported viewing methods to ensure correct rendering.[RIXML Investment Research Linkback Technical Implementation Guide v1.0 p.8]↗

Relationships

• child-ofProduct — Content is a required, singly-occurring child of Product and carries all content-descriptive metadata for that product.
• requiresTitle — Content requires a Title child to provide primary product identification.
• containsResource — Content contains one or more Resource children that point to the actual research deliverable(s); these provide the physical manifestation of the content for distribution.
• constrainsResource — Under Level One compliance, Content is constrained to exactly one Resource child rather than the multiple resources allowed by the base schema.
• may-containSubTitle — Content may optionally include SubTitle and SubTitleFormatted for secondary identification text.
• may-containAbstract — Content may optionally include Abstract (and AbstractFormatted) summarising the research at length (suggested 3000 character cap).
• may-containSynopsis — Content may optionally include Synopsis (and SynopsisFormatted) for short-form previews (suggested 300 character cap).
• may-containContentDetailsAlternativeLanguages — From v2.5.1 onward, Content may include ContentDetailsAlternativeLanguages to provide titles, abstracts and synopses in additional languages.