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                            This document specifies:—     generic extensible data interchange formats for the representation of friction ridge image data: a tagged binary data format based on an extensible specification in ASN.1 and a textual data format based on an XML schema definition that are both capable of holding the same information;—     examples of data record contents;—     application specific requirements, recommendations, and best practices in data acquisition; and—     conformance test assertions and conformance test procedures applicable to this document.