Prior to Fedora 2.1, there was no formal batchMerge schema and the schema was implied based on the example object-specific files. This schema provides a more formal definition that conforms to the pre-Fedora 2.1 object-specific examples and also provides some new extensions. This element is for backward compatibility with pre-Fedora 2.1 object-specific file formats where inline XML metadata was treated separately from other types of datastreams. It is recommended that users use the new extended datastream element for all types of datastreams. This feature may be deprecated in a future release. This element has been extended from the examples in pre-Fedora2.1 object-specific files. It now includes the ability to include inline XML within the datastream element and also includes several new datastream attributes that were introduced with FOXML 1.0.