Create Schemas for Flat File Messages

Overview

After creating an XML message schema as described in Creating Schemas for XML Messages, use the Schema Editor Extensions property of the Schema node to enable the flat file extension. Enabling the flat file extension adds a considerable number of properties to many of the node types within a schema. These properties are generally used to control how a flat file business document is translated to and from its equivalent XML business document, and their values are stored as XML Schema definition language (XSD ) annotations within the schema file. Using these properties properly takes some practice and a thorough understanding of which aspects of the flat file format they each govern.

For conceptual and reference information about the flat file properties, see Considerations When Creating Flat File Message Schemas and Supplemental Node Properties for Flat File Schemas in the UI guidance and developers API namespace reference.

See Also

• Managing Schemas Within Projects
• More details on these properties in the UI guidance and developers API namespace reference