Chapter 5 Generating and reverse engineering an XSD, a DTD or an XDR file


What is reverse engineering?

Reverse engineering is the process of examining and recovering data or source code from a file that is then used to build or update an XML model.

You can reverse engineer objects to a new model, or to an existing model. When you reverse engineer an object which already exists in a model, you use an object comparison box to choose either to replace or to keep the existing object in the model.

Note   Parsing
PowerDesigner uses a parser software for XML reverse engineering, developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

 


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