SWES is an OGC Standard. Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium. To obtain additional rights of use, visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/legal/ . textual description of the object identifier of the object label / name of the object place where other specifications may insert additional information container for a sensor / procedure description time instant or time period for which the given sensor description is valid the sensor description explicit representation of the role a given feature has for some specific source type describes the relationship of the target feature to the source type the feature whose role with respect to some source type is further described by this relationship container for response parameters defined by extension container for request parameters defined by extension Supports provision of a handle for the XML element representing a SWES Object. It is of XML type ID, so is constrained to be unique in the XML document within which it occurs.