1.3.2 Organization of This Documentation

Section 2 of this document is arranged with overviews of high-level concepts, followed by more detailed concepts. Sections 2.1 and 2.2, in particular, specify high-level concepts that are required to understand the remainder of the document and should be read before reading the remainder of Section 2.

Section 2.1 specifies the structures and concepts that are used to organize and structure the file itself. Subsection 2.1.7 further specifies the valid storages, streams, and substreams that are enabled for files of the type specified by this document.

Section 2.2 specifies higher-level chart concepts for use in later sections of this document.

Section 2.3 specifies the record name associated with a record type. For more information about record types, see Records (section 2.4). These associations are listed by record name, as well as by record type.

Section 2.4 specifies the details of individual records.

Section 2.5 specifies the details of structures that are used by records and other structures.

Section 3 provides specific examples that illustrate the concepts, records, and structures of this file format.

Section 4 discusses security issues that relate to files of the type specified by this document.

Section 5 is a list of version-specific behaviors. It is not intended to be read alone, but rather to be understood in the context of the specifications in Section 2. Specifications in Section 2 provide links to the relevant items in Section 5.