Process chain master data: attributes or Text load first?

Hello
I understand as attributes those characteristics defined as nav. attrib for a characteristic. For example I have char. material with attrib source, destine, manufacturer, country etc. So my understanding was first to load all text (code and description) for each one of the characteristics (inc. attributes) and later load properly for a material X all of its attribute values x1,x2,x3....
I am correct ?
becuase if I load first attributes as I understand them, maybe some codes that I update at posteriori will note have their attribute values loaded
Hope you understand what I mean
Looking forward your replies !
tia

thanks Udo
as of the sequence master first and transact after is clear but allow me to rephrase my question :
when I use a text datasource i will be filling code and descriptive for a characteristic so for my case material will have all codes and descriptives from R/3. (010 - winston, 020 - marlboro, 030 - camel)
The same for loading attributes master data (for me again text: code and descriptive). In my case lets say attribute is factory so will be 001 spain, 002 france, 003 USA, 004 Germany).
later when I use attribute datasources understand that will be loading for each of my products loaded in step 1 the respective values for their attributes. That is for product 010 load their factory lets say 002 ...
I am a beginner so please let me know if I am misunderstanding anything ?

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Maintaining Generic DataSources
Use
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