== FDO Schema !DeepCopy Support ==

=== Overview ===

As a result of further integrating the FDO API into the Autodesk Map and Autodesk !MapGuide Enterprise product lines, an request was generated senior developers which would see the FDO community implement !DeepCopy or Clone support directly into the FDO API class definitions. The lack of such support was seen as a deficiency in FDO that forced users of the API to write such functionality themselves. 

The following sections outline how this new functionality will be implemented.


=== Definitions ===

The following changes will be made to the FDO API in order to support the process of deep copying or cloning FDO schema and data types.