Adding Composite Elements
Composite data elements are data elements that can contain other data elements. A DataSegment contains DataElements. DataElements contains data values and well as other DataElements. A DataElement that contains other DataElements is a composite data element. Creating a composite data element is very simple.
Creating a regular element and adding it to a segment
Example
// Create a new Data Segment that will hold the data element
DataSegment segSegment = new DataSegment(“SEG”);
segSegment.Elements.Add(“A Value”);
DataSegment segSegment = new DataSegment(“SEG”);
segSegment.Elements.Add(“A Value”);
or
DataElement regularElement = new DataElement(“A Value”);
segSegment.Elements.Add(regularElement);
segSegment.Elements.Add(regularElement);
Creating a composite element and adding it to a segment
Example
DataSegment segSegment = new DataSegment(“SEG”);
// Create a Data Element and set its composite property to true
DataElement compositeElement = new DataElement();
compositeElement.Composite = true;
DataElement compositeElement = new DataElement();
compositeElement.Composite = true;
// Add elements to the composite element
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 1”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 2”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 3”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 4”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 5”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 6”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 7”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 1”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 2”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 3”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 4”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 5”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 6”);
compositeElement.Elements.Add(“Composite Value 7”);
segSegment.Elements.Add(compositeElement);