I am trying to read a .pbtxt file and have two questions regarding the following section:
node {
  name: "bert/embeddings/Slice/begin"
  op: "Const"
  input: "^bert/embeddings/assert_less_equal/Assert/Assert"
  ...
  attr {
    key: "value"
    value {
      tensor {
        dtype: DT_INT32
        tensor_shape {
          dim {
            size: 2
          }
        }
        tensor_content: "\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000"
      }
    }
  }
}


Why does a Const node have an input? Is the value not defined by the attr part of this node?
What does the ^ mean at the beginning of the input field?
Is there documentation available for the TensorFlow pbtxt format? I was not able to find anything.

Many thanks for your help in advance.