When the Designer creates an XML definition based on an XML schema that uses inheritance, the Designer can expand the metadata for each referenced element or group within the view that references the metadata. Or, the Designer can create a separate view for a referenced object and create relationships between the object and other views.

If you use references within an XML schema, you might want to reduce the number of times the Designer includes the metadata associated with a reference. The XML Wizard provides the following options to reduce metadata references:

When you reduce metadata explosion, the Designer creates entity relationships between the XML views it generates.