BLAST Output format (XML) - Stripped example.

blast_format.xml

?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE BlastOutput PUBLIC "-//NCBI//NCBI BlastOutput/EN" "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dtd/NCBI_BlastOutput.dtd">
<BlastOutput>
  <BlastOutput_program>
  <BlastOutput_version>
  <BlastOutput_reference>
  <BlastOutput_db>
  <BlastOutput_query-ID>
  <BlastOutput_query-def>
  <BlastOutput_query-len>
  <BlastOutput_param>
    <Parameters>
      <Parameters_matrix>
      <Parameters_expect>
      <Parameters_gap-open>
      <Parameters_gap-extend>
      <Parameters_filter>
    </Parameters>
  </BlastOutput_param>
<BlastOutput_iterations>
<Iteration>
  -- Iteration details --
<Iteration_hits>
<Hit>
  <Hit_num>
  <Hit_id>
  <Hit_def>
  <Hit_accession>
  <Hit_len>
  <Hit_hsps>
    <Hsp>
  -- HSP Details --
    </Hsp>
  </Hit_hsps>
</Hit>
<Hit> </Hit>
</Iteration_hits>
<Iteration_stat>
  -- Statistics about Query --
</Iteration_stat>
</Iteration>
</BlastOutput_iterations>
</BlastOutput>