This is the Matching Extension Ranking List (MERL) schema as first introduced by the publication "dbling: Identifying Extensions Installed on Encrypted Web Thin Clients". As described more fully in the paper, the purposes of a MERL file are to:
- List (using their
inode
numbers) evidence artifacts that have been evaluated to be potential root directories for installed extensions, and - List the extensions calculated to be the most likely matches for each of these artifacts.
Because they serve a similar purpose, this schema directly references and depends on the DFXML schema.