This contains a computer-readable description of the DIS protocol.
The XML document describes the PDUs and records in the DIS protocol. This is used as an input to the xmlpg program, which can generate Java, C++, C#, an Objective-C source code.
The XML format is relatively straightforward. The document describes classes and their attributes. The attributes can be the various primitive types (byte, short, int, long, float, double, etc). They can also be arrays or variable length lists of primitives or objects. A special type of primitive is a count field, which contains a number that tells us how long a later variable length list is.
The format is rather lightly documented, and is only well-formed XML; there is no schema. In the end the documentation is primarily in the XMLPG source code.
Documents include:
DIS1995.xml: The DIS-1995 standard, the original IEEE 1278.1. DIS1998.xml: Revised DIS standard DIS2009.xml: The updated IEEE format, whith additions for directed energy and some name changes in the API