How do I add/import an existing *.XSD into an EA ?

[pstein]

From another project I got a huge *.XSD file.

I want to import this data model into EA and make some changes.

How do I import such an *.xsd file into (an empty project of) EA?
I found no "import Data model" menu or similar.

Peter

[«Midnight»]

Look up Import | XSD in the EA help index.

[thomas.kilian]

Be warned that EA has it's *unique* understanding of mapping XSD to UML. Not blaming Sparx as there is no standard out there However you might not get what you want. There are also quite some flaws: relative paths in schemaLocation confuses EA, some XSDelement attributes are not assigned (here in many cases if the name is GUID) and (worst) it decides on inventing (export) or merging (import) complexType and topLevelElements.

[«Midnight»]

Not only that, but you're lucky - at least in one respect - that this is a single huge XSD. EA is not good at bulk imports of several files.