Primo Dataset

Primo Dataset of a proof contains the following:

Article XML
Strip-ins for equations with non-compliant MathML
Dataset XML
Assets (images & supplementary materials)
WEB and PRINT version figures.
Source of the images

Article XML

Suppliers are requested use the full-text single XML and not to process datasets with multiple XMLs like abstract, add-ons, batch placeholders etc. via Primo. The file name should be main.xml.

Directory structure syntax

  <dataset_directory>/<pii_number>/main.xml

Directory structure example

  XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.xml

Mathml

Use mathml3 line break attributes to indicate equation breaking points. Indent target and indentalign="id" attributes are recommended to indicate horizontal alignment of lines in equations.

Track changes & queries

The proof in XML may contain copy-edit track changes and queries in any one of the below formats.


Action	Coding
Insertion	`<!--INS-->xxx<!--/INS-->`
Deletion	`<!--DEL-->yyy<!--/DEL-->`
Replacement	`<!--INS-->xxx<!--/INS--><!--DEL-->yyy<!--/DEL-->`
Query	`<!--Q1: query text.-->`
Boolean Query	`<!--Q1 replies=“Yes \| No” type=“boolean”: query text.-->`

Query Identifier

The query identifiers have the form: 'Q' followed by the query number, e.g. Q1, Q5. While generating the query avoid:

Using the same query identifier for two different queries.
Calling the same query at two different places.

Strip-ins for equations with non-compliant MathML

As Primo generates strip-ins by itself for rendering equations in Edit View and Proof View, it is no longer mandatory to provide strip-ins.

Dataset XML

The dataset XML should adhere to New-proof schema. According to the workflow, the supplier can omit both MAIN and EDITED-PROOF PDFs from the dataset. The tags such as web-pdf, page-fraction-body, page-fraction-trail, pdf-pages, and pdf-pages-web can be removed from the dataset.xml.
No need to include the proof-uri in the dataset.xml. Primo will generate the proof url automatically.

Instruction to include web & print artworks along with the S100 to Primo

Include the web version (Elsevier RGB spec PDF) images in the web directory. If the journals do not belong to E-only as per the JSS, add print version (Elsevier CMYK spec PDF) images to the print directory. The images should be placed inside main.assets/web and main.assets/print directories. For correction purposes, add the original high quality RGB and compressed EPS versions inside the main.assets/eps directory. See the directory structure below.

XXXXF9999999/ XXXXF9999999/dataset.xml XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/ XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.xml XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.stripin/ XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.stripin/si1.svg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.stripin/si2.svg

XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/ XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/ga1.jpg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/sc1.jpg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/gr1.jpg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/mmc1.docx

XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/eps/ XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/eps/ga1.eps.gz XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/eps/sc1.eps.gz XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/eps/gr1.eps.gz

XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/web/ XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/web/ga1.jpg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/web/sc1.jpg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/web/gr1.jpg

XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/print/ XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/print/ga1.jpg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/print/sc1.jpg XXXXF9999999/S999999992600000X/main.assets/print/gr1.jpg

Input & Output

The input dataset file name should be unique. On the dataset is uploaded to the sftp, a validation XML will be generated. Download it and check the status. If it is a successful one, the XML will contain the Primo url as shown in the example below. The XML file name will UJID-AID-Primo-validation-YYYY-mm-ddTHH-MM-SSZ.xml.

AML-100002-Primo-validation-2026-04-06T05-34-51Z.xml: <?xml version="1.0"?> <primo-import-information xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="XML-signal-validation.xsd">

 <timestamp>2026-04-06T04-19-32Z</timestamp>
 <supplier>
   <name>STMDE</name>
 </supplier>
 <article>
   <jid>AML</jid>
   <aid>100002</aid>
 </article>
 <status>success</status>
 <url>https://primo.stmsoft.in/dp/x603nelt5xiwk</url>

</primo-import-information>