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# XMLCharAttributesEnum

XMLCharAttributesEnum enumeration constants are used to describe groups of [character attributes](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams) to be written in files in XML format.

```
typedef enum {
 XCA_None,
 XCA_Ascii,
 XCA_Basic,
 XCA_Extended
} XMLCharAttributesEnum;
```

## Elements

<table><thead><tr><th><p><strong>Name</strong></p></th><th><p><strong>Description</strong></p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>XCA\_Ascii</p></td><td><p>Character coordinates and character confidence are to be written. Exactly the same format is used by <strong><a href="/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/plaintext/savetoasciixmlfile-method">IPlainText::SaveToAsciiXMLFile</a></strong> method.</p><Note>Block coordinates are not to be written in this case.</Note></td></tr><tr><td><p>XCA\_Basic</p></td><td><p>Character and block coordinates are to be written.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XCA\_Extended</p></td><td><p>Character and block coordinates, character confidence and extended character attributes are to be written. The following extended attributes are written:</p><ul><li>whether the character is the first character in a word,</li><li>whether the word is found in the dictionary,</li><li>whether the word is recognized with either a standard or user-defined language, and that it is not a number or an identifier,</li><li>whether the word is a number,</li><li>whether the word is an identifier,</li><li>probability that a character is written with a Serif font,</li><li>penalty for discordance of characters in a word,</li><li>the mean width of stroke in the RLE representation of a word image.</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><p>XCA\_None</p></td><td><p>No character attributes are to be written.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Used in

[IXMLExportParams::WriteCharAttributes](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/parameter-objects/export-parameters/xmlexportparams#writecharattributes)