The XML hierarchy for the empty questionnaire form is structured as follows (the elements marked with an asterisk can be repeated, for example a questionnaire may contain more than one group):

• element questionnaire
  • element group *
    • attribute id

      when using the design tab the identifier will be automatically assigned such that each identifier starts with a g and groups are numbered incrementally

    • attribute scale

      number of possible answers to the questions in this group, lower limit is always 1

    • element title
      • content: group title
    • element description
      • content: group description
    • element legend

      explanations of all options that can be selected as answers

      • element option *

        there must be 1 option tag for each option

        • content: explanation of option
        • attribute value

          number of option (1 to scale)

    • element question *
      • attribute id

        when using the design tab the identifier will be automatically assigned such that each identifier starts with a q and questions are numbered incrementally among all groups (questions in different groups still can not have the same id)

      • element text
        • content: the question text

The XML hierarchy for storing submitted forms is structured as follows:

• element answers
  • element form *

    one for each filled questionnaire

    • attribute id

      username or ticket used to fill out the questionnaire

    • element question *
      • content: number of selected answer to this question
      • attribute id

        id of question (same as in master form)

    • element comment
      • content: the text which the person has written as comment when filling out

When the report is generated, the master (empty) form will be used for storing the results. For this, each question element will get the following extra elements and attributes:

• attribute answered

  number of people who answered this question

• attribute average

  weighted average of answers

• element answer *

  for each selected answer to this question

  • content: number of selected answer to the question
  • attribute count

    how many people selected this answer

  • attribute percent

    what is the percentage of this answer