MetadataBuilderInformation element

2025-06-30

Important

Device metadata is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Windows. For information about the replacement for this functionality, see Driver Package Container Metadata.

The MetadataBuilderInformation element specifies information about the application that created the device metadata package.

Usage

<MetadataBuilderInformation>
  textchild elements
</MetadataBuilderInformation>

Attributes

There are no attributes.

Text value

A string that contains between 1 and 256 printable characters inclusive.

Child elements

Element	Description
Application	The Application element specifies the name of the application software that created the device metadata package.
Version	The Version element specifies the version of the application software that created the device metadata package.

Child element sequence

(
  Application, 
  Version
)

Parent elements

Element	Description
PackageInfo	The PackageInfo element is the parent element of the PackageInfo XML schema. The child elements of the PackageInfo element specify the attributes of the device metadata package.

XSD

<xs:element name="MetadataBuilderInformation"
   type="tns:MetadataBuilderInformationType" minOccurs="0" /> 

<xs:complexType name="MetadataBuilderInformationType">
   <xs:sequence>
    <xs:element name="Application" type="tns:ApplicationType" />
    <xs:element name="Version" type="tns:VersionType" />
    <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
      maxOccurs="unbounded" />
   </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType> 

<xs:simpleType name="ApplicationType">
   <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
     <xs:minLength value="1" />
     <xs:maxLength value="256" />
  </xs:restriction>
 </xs:simpleType> 

<xs:simpleType name="VersionType">
   <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
     <xs:minLength value="1" />
     <xs:maxLength value="256" />
   </xs:restriction> 
</xs:simpleType>

Remarks

The MetadataBuilderInformation element is not used by the Windows 7 operating system. It is reserved for use by the OEM and developers.

Examples

The following is an example of the MetadataBuilderInformation element:

<MetadataBuilderInformation>
  <Application>Microsoft Metadata Sample</Application>
  <Version>0.8</Version>
</MetadataBuilderInformation>

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