A notation is a means of associating a binary description with an entity or attribute. For example, you are making a catalogue of your clothing and want to include an image of one of your shirts. You would have to create a notation such as the following: <notation name="My_Shirt" system="GIF"></notation> which defines a notation for a GIF image.
In the XML schema editor, you can add an notation element to an XML schema. Before you can do this, you must create an XML schema and open it in the XML schema editor.
The following instructions were written for the Resource perspective, but they will also work in many other perspectives.
To create a notation, follow these steps:
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