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At some point after this documentation was originally written the schema structure grew to include the possibility of structural attribute types, represented using "nested_type" instead of "type" in the attribute definition, but it seems that the documentation was not updated to mention that. This is just a minimal extra note about that focused mainly on just acknowledging that this possibility exists at all, in case anyone is relying on these docs to build something to parse this format. It would probably be helpful to expand both this and the existing documentation to specify the format more precisely, but my focus here is just on quickly filling in this missing piece so that the documentation is complete, even if not detailed and precise. Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
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