Chapter 18 Working with XML

Global element

A global element is declared as a child of the schema element; it can be referenced in one or more declarations. You define an XML-Schema global element using a class with the <<element>> stereotype in PowerDesigner.

You define the type of a global element using the following methods:

• For a complex type, use attributes. In this case you have to set the isComplexType extended attribute to True for attributes defined in the <<element>> class to be generated as a complex type

<xsd:element name="customer">
 <xsd:complexType>
  <xsd:element name="name" type="int"/>
  <xsd:element name="address" type="int"/>
 </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

• For a simple type, set a value for the type extended attribute

<xsd:element name="Customer" type="CustomerListType"/>

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