Chapter 18 Working with XML

Generating for XML

This section summarizes generation options used when generating for the following XML languages:

XML-Schema: a .XSD file will be generated per package or model. You can generate an XML-Schema definition in this specific format for validations and/or data exchange purposes
XML-DTD: a .DTD file will be generated per package or model. A DTD file provides an overall structure for an XML file. You can generate an XML-DTD definition in this specific format for validations and/or data exchange purposes

To change the XML format type, you must change the object language for the model from the Language→Change Current Object Language command.

You can create a new XML object language based on an existing one if you want to generate in another type of XML format that is not available in PowerDesigner.

Generated objects

When you generate XML from an OOM, PowerDesigner creates one XML file per package. The file contains the definition of each of the classes you select to generate in the Generation dialog box. You can select any of the classes from the model, including those that are contained within packages or sub-packages.

Navigable associations are migrated and generated as attributes although they do have their own definition in the object language file
Interfaces, operations, and links (dependencies, realizations and generalizations) are not included in the generated file