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| <title>Adding notations</title> | |
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| <searchtitle>Adding notations</searchtitle> | |
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| <shortdesc>A notation is a means of associating a binary description with | |
| an entity or attribute. The most common uses of notations are to include familiar | |
| types of binary references, such as GIFs and JPGs, in an XML file.</shortdesc> | |
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| <keywords><indexterm>XML schema editor<indexterm>notations</indexterm></indexterm> | |
| <indexterm>XML schema files<indexterm>notations</indexterm></indexterm> | |
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| <context><p>For example, you are making a catalogue of your clothing and want | |
| to include an image of one of your shirts. You would have to create a notation | |
| like this: <userinput><notation name="My_Shirt" system="GIF"></notation></userinput> which | |
| defines a notation for a GIF image.</p><p>The following instructions were | |
| written for the Resource perspective, but they will also work in many other | |
| perspectives.</p><p>To create a notation, follow these steps:</p></context> | |
| <steps> | |
| <step><cmd>Open your XML schema in the XML schema editor.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>In the Outline view, right-click your XML schema and click <uicontrol>Add | |
| Notation</uicontrol>.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>In the Properties view, type the name of the notation in the <uicontrol>Name</uicontrol> field.</cmd> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Other</uicontrol> tab.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>In the <uicontrol>public</uicontrol> field, type a public identifier.</cmd> | |
| <info> This is optional if you enter a value in the <uicontrol>system</uicontrol> field.</info> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>In the <uicontrol>system</uicontrol> field, type a URI reference.</cmd> | |
| <info> This is optional if you enter a value in the <uicontrol>public</uicontrol> field.</info> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Documentation</uicontrol> tab if you want | |
| to provide any information about this notation.</cmd><info>The <uicontrol>Documentation</uicontrol> page | |
| is used for human readable material, such as a description. <uicontrol>App | |
| Info</uicontrol> page can be used to provide information for applications.</info> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Extensions</uicontrol> tab if you want to | |
| add application information elements to your annotations of schema components.</cmd> | |
| <info>The <uicontrol>Extensions</uicontrol> page allows you to specify the | |
| schema and add XML content to your annotations.</info></step> | |
| </steps> | |
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