About This Book
Subject | This book describes the PowerDesigner XML Model environment. It shows |
| you how to do the following: |
| ♦ Build an XML model |
| ♦ Work on an XML model |
| ♦ Generate and reverse engineer a DTD file |
| ♦ Generate and reverse engineer an XSD file |
| ♦ Generate and reverse engineer an XDR file |
| ♦ Generate an annotated schema |
| ♦ Generate a DAD file |
| ♦ Generate an SQL/XML query |
| ♦ Generate an XML model from a PDM |
| ♦ Generate an XML model from an OOM |
| ♦ Generate an XML model from another XML model |
Audience | This book is for anyone who will be designing or building an XML model |
| with PowerDesigner. It requires an understanding of XML. Some experience |
| with XML Schema might also be helpful but not required. For more |
| information, see the Bibliography section at the end of this chapter. |
Documentation primer
The PowerDesigner modeling environment supports several types of models:
♦Conceptual Data Model (CDM) to model the overall logical structure of a data application, independent from any software or data storage structure considerations
♦Physical Data Model (PDM) to model the overall physical structure of a database, taking into account DBMS software or data storage structure considerations
XSM User's Guide | ix |