# Alarm XML file structure

The alarm import file is an XML document that describes the alarm configuration of a FactoryTalk View Machine Edition application as it might be defined in the Alarm Setup editor. The root element of the XML document is called alarms. It represents the alarm configuration file for the application.

An XML document can contain only one root element. All other elements in the document must be contained or nested within the root element.

In an XML document, the start and end of an element shows as follows:

`<element name>`

`...`

`</element name>`

The start and end of the alarms element look like this in an XML document:

`<alarms>`

`...`

`</alarms>`

The syntax for specifying an attribute for an element is:

attribute name="value"

The attribute value must be enclosed in single or double quotes.

Elements and attributes in the alarm import and export files are case sensitive.

You can specify multiple attributes for an element and have multiple elements in an XML document.

## See also

Alarm Import Export Wizard

Alarm XML file elements

Example: Alarm XML file