Authoring Style Guide

This is a living document that details style guidelines for content in the OVAL Repository. This document will be updated as new decisions are made and questions are answered on the OVAL Repository Forum.

Please verify that all submissions to the OVAL Repository align with these guidelines prior to posting a submission. These stylistic decisions have been codified where possible as a set of Schematron rules.

For information on submitting new and modified content to the OVAL Repository, please review the Submission Guidelines.

General

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Definitions

General

Vulnerability Definitions

Patch Definitions

Inventory Definitions

Compliance Definitions

Definition Metadata

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Tests

Objects

States

Variables

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