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The element-data model uses a tabulated list of element values as the target for the optimization. In addition, it requires an output variable that will be matched against the element data.

<Objective type="element-data">
  <var type="[enter variable name]"/>
  <data>
    <elem id="1">0.123</elem>
    ...
  </data>
</Objective>

The variable can be any of the element output data listed in the logfile section (See 3.6.6↑).