Functional Overview - Sybase PowerDesigner XML User Manual

Functional overview

Functional overview
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With the graphical interface and the Browser tree view of PowerDesigner
XML Model, you can design an XML diagram which represents the content
of an XML Schema Definition file (.XSD), a Document Type Definition file
(.DTD) or an XML-Data Reduced file (.XDR). Since XML structures can be
very complex, it is much easier to visualize them through comprehensive and
explicit diagrams, than to read XML-coded pages.
Once you have created an XML diagram, you can generate an XSD, a DTD
or an XDR file to share the structure of an XML document via an ordinary
plain text file.
Conversely, you will be able to reverse engineer an XSD, a DTD or an XDR
file into an XML model, with its corresponding diagram.
The XML Model allows you to:
Build an XML model
Check an XML model
Map objects in an XML model
Edit a report of an XML model
Generate and reverse engineer an XSD, a DTD or an XDR file
Generate an XML model from a Physical Data Model (PDM)
Generate an XML model from an Object Oriented Model (OOM)
Generate an XML model from an XML model
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