Data references

Referring to data structures from use cases

Use the data-ref element to refer to a data structure from use case:

<uc-group ...>
        <use-case goal="Identify account" code="SYS-100">
                <success>
                        <step>User enters <data-ref code="AccountNumber">account number</data-ref>.</step>
                        <step>System validates account number.</step>
                        <step>User searches for the account.</step>
                </success>
        </use-case>
</uc-group>
<data-structure name="Account number" code="AccountNumber">
        <attribute name="Prefix" />
        <attribute name="Number" />
        <attribute name="Bank code" />
</data-structure>

In the above example, the content of the data-ref element (that is "account number") will become an HTML link to the account number data structure.

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