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Export Formatting (Old Style)

Export Formatting (Old Style)

 

Export Formating (Old Style)

The Export1 button brings up the older Export Dialog box, used for generating ASN source code and bulk XML exported from the database. [In the past, it was also used to create the XML schema files and the export script for uploading to the IEEE central registry, no longer used.] The XML Schema exporting process is covered in the next Dialog.

The most common use of this dialog is to create a complete set of
ASN which can then be validated by a complier to confirm it is syntactically correct, or the export can be used to generate programming stubs in common languages such as C++.

You can also produce a complete rendering of all the meta-data information in a table into a simple XML instance which you can then process and use on other programming environments as you see fit. This is used to import the data into the SQL or ORACLE or other database styles by some deployments.   This form (bulk XML) is useful if you want to export all the meta-data of a database into a common and simple XML format for import to another tool.  This is NOT the same as a proper XML schema, which the other export screen (see link above) supports.

The basic process of using this dialog is the following four steps.

   A) Select the type of output you wish to create (ASN source or XML meta data).

   B) Select what table you wish to output from.

   C) Set any options such as the default module names.

   D) Press go and wait a moment.

Further details of each step are provided below.

1Select Format

Select Format Select the type of output which you seek to create, either an ASN listing or an XML bulk export (the other two options are no longer used).

The check box Match Registry ID has no use at present. It was formerly used to match up the record number used in the central registry with those used in the access tables and your data concepts.

The check box Append ASN.1 stubs is used to control the inclusion of any named ASN stubs to the module level build. If selected, it will seek for well named ASN text files to include in the build. If they are found they will be included. If they are not found, the position in the source file where they would be included will have a comment.  The files will be the name of each FADD with "stubs" append, as in: IMstubs.txt   Such files can be useful when developing ASN where portions of the code are included from outside sources rather than in the database.

The check box Append XML stubs is used in a similar fashion to control the XML import process, but is now overcome by the controls present in the Export XML dialog.

2Select Tables

Select Tables A collection of check boxes to select the set of tables which will be used in the output process. The default setting represents the tables that would normally be output by an SDO check of a standard.
 

3XML Import Source

4XML Stub Folders

XML Stub Folders A primitive means to specify the relative path of where the schema set will be written to the user PC. Now overcome the controls present in the Export XML Dialog.

5Output File

Output File The name of the file to be output by the routines.

6View Result button

View Result button When pressed, whatever viewer the user has registered for this file type (ASN or XSD) is fired off to view the result of the run.

7Cancel button

Cancel button A close button for this dialog.

8Do It button

Do It button The go button for this dialog. When pressed, the selected tables will be output in the selected way, producing the named file(s).

9Namespace to use

Namespace to use The ASN module and XML namespace that this exported code will be defaulted into when created.

10Draft Text Name

Draft Text Name The name to be appended to the Descriptive name or the XML name, if the appending checkboxes are checked.

11Append Draft_ to XML Tag

Append Draft_ to XML Tag Appends the word draft_ to the XML type name field value so that record entries can be easily grouped or told apart from other values. Used with the registry data to test drive a set of new records.

12Append Draft_ to Descriptive Name

Append Draft_ to Descriptive Name Appends the word draft_ to the Descriptive name field value so that record entries can be easily grouped or told apart from other values. Often used with the registry data to test drive a set of new records being uploaded.

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