Attribute Mapping

[salayande]

I use a top down approach to developing an XML vocabulary from logical class models.

Each attribute in a class is remodelled in a separate package (XSDChema) as a global element.

Different persons working in a team update the diferent models and there is a requirement to ensure that every global element defined has a corresponding arribute defined in the class models.

There are three potential solutions to this problem:

1. Visual Check. This is unworkable as the schema grows in size
2. Use the Matrix Facility to map the global elements against the attributes defined in classes. The matrix does not currently support attributes.
3. Enable attributes to be tagged as global classes and this should facilitate direct generation of eleements from this model. This is the better solution.