Applying Custom Encoding to an XSD

In the absence of a predefined representation of the metadata describing the data format, you must manually create the Abstract Message Definition and apply the Custom Encoder. To begin this process, you must create an XSD and apply the Custom Encoder, as follows:

To Apply the Custom Encoder to an XSD

1. In your project, right—click to access the project context menu and add a new XML Schema.
   

   You will need to develop the XSD node structure to match the parsing of the serialized message stream being processed. This process is described in the topics following this one.

2. In the resulting XSD, right—click to access its context menu and select Encoder > Apply Custom Encoder.
   

   Once you apply the Encoder, a special encoding node is automatically added as a child node of an annotation node.

   
   
3. To edit the encoding rules for the individual elements, right-click the encoding node and select Properties.
   
4. After applying the Encoder, the context menu changes as shown in the following illustration. To reset the parameters for all nodes to their default values, reapplying the Encoder. The node structure you have created will be preserved.