purpose

Occurrence

optional, single

Attributes

Description

The element <purpose> describes the purpose of the dive; this element was adopted from the DL7 Standard by DAN — Project Dive Exploration, http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/research/projects/pde/.

Allowed keywords are: sightseeing, learning (if the owner of the UDDF file is a student diving with an instructor on an educational dive), teaching (if the owner of the UDDF file is an instructor teaching a student), research, photography-videography, spearfishing (unfortunately, even nowadays not frowned upon :-( ), proficiency, work, other.

Parent Elements

<informationbeforedive>

Child Elements

See Also

<apparatus>, <dive>, <diveplan>, <divetable>, <informationafterdive>, <platform>, <program>

Examples

(see also <dive>)

<!-- taking photos -->
<purpose>photography-videography</purpose>