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17<h1 class="topictitle1">Adding a group</h1>
18<div><p>A group consists of element declarations, wildcards, and other
19content model groups. When you create a group, it automatically contains a
20content model.</p><div class="skipspace"><p></p>
21<p>The following instructions were written for the Resource
22perspective, but they will also work in many other perspectives. </p>
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24add a group, follow these steps:</p>
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26<ol><li class="skipspace"><span>Open your XML schema in the XML schema editor.</span></li>
27<li class="skipspace"><span>In the Outline view, select your schema.</span> The entire
28schema and its contents should be displayed in the Graph view.</li>
29<li class="skipspace"><span>In the Graph view, right click in the <b>Groups</b> section and
30click <span class="uicontrol">Add Group</span>.</span></li>
31<li class="skipspace"><span>In the Properties view, type a new name for the group in the <span class="uicontrol">Name</span> field.</span></li>
32<li class="skipspace"><span>Click the <span class="uicontrol">Documentation</span> tab if you want
33to provide any information about this group element.</span> The <span class="uicontrol">Documentation</span> page
34is used for human readable material, such as a description, and the <span class="uicontrol">App
35Info</span> page can be used to provide information for applications. </li>
36<li class="skipspace"><span>In the Outline view, expand the <span class="uicontrol">Groups</span> folder
37and your new group.</span></li>
38<li class="skipspace"><span>Your group automatically contains a content model. </span> A
39group's content model is the representation of any data that may be contained
40inside the group. For more information about working with content models,
41refer to the related tasks.</li>
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45<div><p><b class="reltaskshd">Related tasks</b><br />
46<a href="../topics/taddgrpr.html" title="A group reference is a declaration that references a group. It enables the referenced group to appear in the instance document in the context of the referencing declaration. ">Adding a group reference</a><br />
47<a href="../topics/taddcmod.html" title="You can add a content model to an element, global element, a complex type, or a group. A content model is the representation of any data that may be contained inside the element, global element, complex type, or group.">Adding a content model</a><br />
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