Specifying Named Components
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To retrieve a component, specify the type of component in the <name> element and declare each component to be retrieved or deployed in the <members> element. The following is a sample package.xml project manifest that names two custom objects to be retrieved or deployed:
Some metadata components are sub-components of another component. This means you must dot-qualify the sub-component with the parent component name.
The following metadata components are defined as part of an object:
CustomFieldPicklistRecordTypeWeblinkValidationRule
For example, the following code retrieves a validation rule called ValidationRuleName on the Opportunity object: