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| <p>The XSD Adapter performs two major tasks:</p> |
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| <p>It converts XML Schemas (XSDs) to Ecore models in a transparent |
| manner, so that the Ecore models are hidden from the user. This is |
| done in the workflow as well as in the IDE (to allow XSD-aware code |
| completion for Xtend/Xpand/Check). For details about the mapping see |
| <a class="xref" href="xsd_reference_xsd2ecore.html" title="Behind the scenes: Transforming XSD to Ecore">the section called “Behind the scenes: Transforming XSD to Ecore”</a> . For details about the |
| workflow integration see <a class="xref" href="xsd_reference_workflow_components.html" title="Workflow Components">the section called “Workflow Components”</a> |
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| <p>It extends the EmfMetaModel with concepts that are needed for |
| XSDs. Theses are, for example, support for feature maps (needed to |
| handle comments, nested text, CDATA and processing instructions), |
| QNames, EMaps and composed Simpletypes.</p> |
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