Extended Data

The base information included in a Common Base Event may not be sufficient to represent all of the information captured by a component when creating a problem determination event. The Common Base Event provides several methods for including this additional data, including extending the Common Base Event schema or supplying one or more ExtendedDataElement elements within the Common Base Event. We recommend using the latter approach, ExtendedDataElement elements.

An ExtendedDataElement element is used to represent a single data item, and a Common Base Event can contain more than one of these elements (essentially one for each additional data item). A hint to the number and type of ExtendedDataElement elements is supplied by the extensionName value, but this is only a hint. The usage of the attributes in the ExtendedDataElement element for problem determination events is the same as those for any other Common Base Event.

 

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