Transforming data elements

Architecting and designing : XML integration with other methods : Data model to XML transformations : Data model integration : Transforming data elements

You can drag a data element from your browser or the Choices dialog onto an open XML diagram. The data element becomes either an XML element entity (DTDs only) or XML attribute dependent on the value of the XMLDataAsAttribute setting in the Sa2001.ini file. The options for this setting are:

Option	Description
yes (default)	All data elements become XML attributes.
no	All data elements become XML elements.
prompt	Prompt for each data element.

Note If an existing definition is found for a newly created symbol, the existing definition’s properties are not updated by the result of this transformation. The system assumes that existing XML definitions have more accurate property values.

Property transformations

Data element to XML element

Symbol:

Type	Element
Name	Name of the data element.
MinOccurs
MaxOccurs

Definition:

Type	XML element
Name	Name of the data element.
Content	TextOnly.
Data Type	Result of data model to XML data type mapping.
Source Data	Dropped data element name.

Data element to XML attribute

Symbol:

Type	Attribute
Name	Name of the data element.
Required
Default	Copies the Default Value property from the data element.
Values
Data Type	Result of data model to XML data type mapping.
Source Data	Dropped data element name.

Definition:

Type	XML attribute
Name	Name of the data element.