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For example, the following (abbreviated) code ensures that the limits of a domain are symmetric.</p> <div class="highlight-xmds2"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cp"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?></span> <span class="cp"><!DOCTYPE simulation [</span> <span class="cp"><!ENTITY Npts "64"></span> <span class="cp"><!ENTITY L "3.0e-5"></span> ]> <span class="nt"><simulation</span> <span class="na">xmds-version=</span><span class="s">"2"</span><span class="nt">></span> . . . <span class="nt"><geometry></span> <span class="nt"><propagation_dimension></span> t <span class="nt"></propagation_dimension></span> <span class="nt"><transverse_dimensions></span> <span class="nt"><dimension</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"x"</span> <span class="na">lattice=</span><span class="s">"&Npts;"</span> <span class="na">domain=</span><span class="s">"(-&L;, &L;)"</span> <span class="nt">/></span> <span class="nt"></transverse_dimensions></span> <span class="nt"></geometry></span> </pre></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <p class="logo"><a href="index.html"> <img class="logo" src="_static/xmds_logo.png" alt="Logo"/> </a></p> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="reference_schema.html" title="XMDS2 XML Schema" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="reference_installation_and_configuration.html" title="Configuration, installation and runtime options" >previous</a> |</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="index.html">XMDS2 2.2.3 documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="reference_index.html" >Reference section</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright 2008-2014, Graham Dennis, Joe Hope and Mattias Johnsson. 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