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Global elements
Global elements are the globally defined schema elements, which can be reused by referencing them in other parts of the schema or from other schema documents.
WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files supports global elements in structured business objects. The adapter supports global elements of anonymous type and global elements of named type, with namespace as well as without namespace in schema business objects.
For more information see, Global elements in a structured business object.