Sybase XML manual Mapping complex types, 170, Tool Description

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Mapping objects in an XML model

In the Mapping page, you can use the following tools to select a data source for the current element:

Tool

Description

 

Adds a mapping between the current element and an existing data

 

source. The first time you define a mapping for an element, the

 

Mapping for dropdown listbox is empty. You have to click the Add a

 

Mapping for a Data Source tool before you can map the elements to

 

tables in the data source

 

 

 

Deletes the mapping for the data source

 

 

 

Edits properties of the selected data source

Element Sources

The Element Sources page allows you to associate one or several tables in the

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data source to the current element.

 

You can use the Add Objects tool to select tables from the PDMs opened in

 

the current workspace.

 

 

 

Attributes Mapping

The Attributes Mapping page allows you to define the mapping between

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columns in the source tables and attributes in the current element.

 

Tool

 

Tooltip

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add Mapping

 

To select the attributes in the current element

 

 

 

 

 

that will be mapped to columns in the source

 

 

 

 

 

table. Once you have selected the attributes,

 

 

 

 

 

you can use the dropdown listbox in the

 

 

 

 

 

Mapped to column to select corresponding

 

 

 

 

 

columns in the source table

 

 

 

Create from Sources

 

To copy columns from the tables in the data

 

 

 

 

 

source to the current element

 

 

 

Generate Mapping

 

To automatically generate a mapping between

 

 

 

 

 

columns and attributes with same name or

 

 

 

 

 

code in the data source and the current model

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mapping complex types

You can map complex types to PDM objects.

Once the abstract data types are identified and mapped with the complex types, you can define mappings between abstract data type attributes and complex type attributes.

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Sybase XML manual Mapping complex types, 170, Tool Description