The YAML descriptions of semantic convention contained in this directory are intended to be used by the various OpenTelemetry language implementations to aid in automatic generation of semantics-related code.
Refer to the syntax for how to write the YAML files for semantic conventions.
These YAML files are used by the make target table-generation to generate consistently
formatted Markdown tables for all semantic conventions in the specification. Run it from the root of this repository using the command
make table-generation
For more information, see the semantic convention generator in the OpenTelemetry build tools repository. Using this build tool, it is also possible to generate code for use in OpenTelemetry language projects.
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The fields and their expected values are presented in syntax.md.