User Defined Attributes in User Elements

User Defined Attributes (UDAs) are applicable to all database types.

Having defined and compiled a set of UDAs in Lexicon, those elements defined as using UDAs will have the UDA UDNAME, preceded by a colon and followed by the UDA’s default setting, added to their standard attribute lists. For example, suppose an INTEGER UDA has been defined as follows:

Querying the attributes of a SITE element in MODEL would give something like:

The UDA instance, that is, the reference to the UDA definition, appears at the end of the attribute list, with a colon as its first character.