A description of the TBX file structure—optimised for AI

This is the file mentioned in the TB meet-up, that describes for an AI the Xml structure of a TBX, i.e. the XML tags and their purpose:

The_XML_TBX_format.html.zip (26.8 KB)

(A single HTML file, no styling/JavaScript, but .html files can’t be uploaded in that form)

Notre that as well-formatted HTML5, the document is perfectly human readable is a but spartan. there’s not styling as that is waste of AI token, there extra info doesn’t help the AI understand the subject matter any better.

The file was developed alongside v11.7.0 and should be accurate for v11.8.0 when released, and later unless/until subsequent public releases change the TBX files structure.

I suspect it may be useful to those use AI/MCP with Tinderbox.

The seeding source material for the project was this section of aTbRef but that required extensive expansion and re-structuring to make the eventual document above (which, yes, is exported from a TBX file). A project aim was to use minmal data (use of context tokens) whilst still properly defining the document structure.

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