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  • Added lightgray background color on some images. Previewing the files in Visual Studio Code.app (with default black background) suggested this was necessary since black text was illegible.

  • Added page 'gcam-xml.md' to explain how basic XML processing works in GCAM. [This obviously should be validated by Pralit or others]

  • Fixed a couple of XML elements that needed to be backquoted (policies.md)

…es in Visual Studio Code.app (with default black background) suggested this was necessary.

- Added page 'gcam-xml.md' to explain how basic XML processing works in GCAM.
- Fixed a couple of XML elements that needed to be backquoted (policies.md)
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Thanks Rich. These changes look good. I want to add some details and clarifications to the XML page but I think I will just do that as a separate PR.


To reduce redundancy, most technologies are defined in an element in the XML files called the `global-technology-database`, which we'll abbreviate here as GTDB. This provides common information about technologies, and of which can be overwritten in individual regions. Regional references to technologies in the GTDB are specified using the `stub-technology` element.

The `global-technology-database` element occurs in 54 files in GCAM v5.1.2. As the XML files are read in, these elements are merged according to the rules above. After all of the XML files have been
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Let's drop the specific numbers here with the reference to the GCAM version. We are trying to avoid having too many places with specifics like this that we would then have to go back and update when things change.

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If you're adding details etc, I assume you can delete the numbers, too, right?

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