Setting XML object properties

The properties of an object indicate the information that the object provides. You can set various property values for the XML Schema objects as shown in the following figure.

XML Properties dialog box
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To edit a property value, select the element in the XML Data Type column, and click the ellipsis button (...) to open the XML Properties dialog box.

• DefaultValue — The default value of an element unless it is overridden by the value in the actual document (incoming or outgoing).
• Element — Whether the object is an element or an attribute.  If the value for Element is true, the object is an element. If the value is false, the object is an attribute. The ROOT element cannot be edited.
• MaxOccurs — The maximum number of instances of the element. The default value is 1. A value of "unbounded" indicates that the element might be repeated any number of times. For example, a purchase order document might contain any number of line items.
• MinOccurs — The number of instances of the element. The default value is 1. If the value is 0, the element might or might not be present.
• Nillable — Whether a node is nillable.  Any leaf node (elements only) can be made nillable. You can set the Nillable attribute to True or False only in the mapping dialog boxes. The document is interpreted according to the rules described in Handling-null-empty-and-missing-values.
• Type — The XML data type of the element.
• XML Type — Whether the node is an XML type. Any leaf node (element or attribute) can be identified as XML Type. If XML Type is True, the data can be treated as XML string data. In this case, BMC Remedy AR System does not treat it like a regular string (that is, the data is not encoded or decoded).