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Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
Schema design
A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
Type properties
The properties of a type define the characteristics of the data objects of that type.
XML properties in the schema
Namespaces

Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
- Files
  You add a file to a project to use it as input in the project. You can upload a file from your local file system to a project from the Files tab to generate test data. Alternatively, you can upload it when you define an action.
- Connections
  A connection defines the properties that are required to connect to an external resource. An action uses a connection to provide source data to a project or write data from a source to a target. Multiple actions can use the same connection. You can define both connections and actions at the project level.
- Schema design
  A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
  - Introduction to schema design
    Use the Schemas tab to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
  - Type properties
    The properties of a type define the characteristics of the data objects of that type.
  - Item restrictions
    Item restrictions are an optional feature you can use to specify valid or invalid data objects for an item type. Item restrictions are grouped into three categories: Value, Character, and Range.
  - Components
  - Partitioning
  - Type inheritance
  - Schema analyzer
  - Distinguishable objects
  - Functions and expressions

Namespaces

The XML Schema Importer supports namespace and prefix properties for all elements and attributes. The importer assigns the values of these properties based on the input grammar. For each namespace in the input grammar, the importer allows you to specify the namespace prefix to be used for output documents.

During the import process, a Location value is specified in the schema without a fully qualified path. In this case, an execution process would, by default, look for the XML Schema at this location. However, if you need to change this path, you can do so.

For example, if you refer to the proper location of the schema in the XML document, then you can manually remove the path location from the type properties. When the execution process does not find a Location value specified in the schema, the process then looks to the "XSDL Hints" specified in the XML document. When XSDL hints are not present, validation fails.

The value specified in the schema takes precedence over the XML document.