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DESCRIBING EXPECTED ENTITY RELATIONSHIPS IN A MODEL

  • US 20080263085A1
  • Filed: 04/20/2007
  • Published: 10/23/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of explicitly declaring expected relationships between expected entities and a reference entity in a model, said reference entity have a reference data type definition associated therewith, said method comprising:

  • creating an expected targets tag in a markup language schema type declaration;

    defining one or more elements describing one or more expected entities in the model;

    identifying a predefined entity relationship;

    associating the expected targets tag with the defined elements and the identified, predefined entity relationship; and

    locating the expected targets tag and associated elements and predefined entity relationship in the reference data type definition of the reference entity to declare a relationship between the expected entities and the reference entity.

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