Submitters’ Information: Creating and Updating entries

A Submission can contain additions to the Registers (CREATE new entries) and/or alterations to existing entries (UPDATE existing entries).

If you want to make an alteration to an existing entry (UPDATE) then download the Registers Snapshot for Editing. Edit the relevant XML file and include it in your Submission. You are advised to delete from the XML file those Registers entries you are not modifying. A Submission XML file used to make an UPDATE will have a master_commit_tag specified at the top. This signals the version of the Register being edited.

Details: Registers version numbers are managed in a (SMPTE-private) repository – the version numbers appear in both:

• master_commit_tag value at the top of each Register XML file in the root of the repository
• git tag associated with the repository commit where the version number was introduced

If you want to CREATE a new entry(ies) in a Register then an XML file containing only the new entry(ies) is needed. It is strongly advised that such a file omits the master_commit_tag to prevent inadvertent editing of existing entries in the Register. Omitting master_commit_tag signals that the XML file is intended to only CREATE new entries.

Note: This document does not apply to the Essence Element Keys Register – refer to dedicated documentation for that Register