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# Specifying Named Components

**note:** The Ant Migration Tool is retired with Spring ’24. The tool continues to function as-is for future API versions but isn’t updated with new functionality and isn’t supported.  If Salesforce adds a new feature that is incompatible with Ant, the Ant Migration Tool won't be updated to support it. To manage metadata changes, switch to Salesforce CLI for a modern, supported developer experience.

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:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>MyCustomObject__c</members>
        <members>MyHelloWorldObject__c</members>
        <name>CustomObject</name>
    </types>
    <version>68.0</version>
</Package>
```

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:

-   `CustomField`
-   `Picklist`
-   `RecordType`
-   `Weblink`
-   `ValidationRule`

For example, the following code retrieves a validation rule called `ValidationRuleName` on the Opportunity object:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>Opportunity.ValidationRuleName</members>
        <name>ValidationRule</name>
    </types>
    <version>68.0</version>
</Package>
```