convert XSD to tree representation

[Fu Bo Xia]

anyone know a Java (or Java usable) package that converts XML Schema (XSD)
documents into a tree form?


thanks,
fu bo

[Raymond DeCampo]

Re: convert XSD to tree representation

Fu Bo Xia wrote:[color=blue]
> anyone know a Java (or Java usable) package that converts XML Schema (XSD)
> documents into a tree form?
>
>
> thanks,
> fu bo
>
>[/color]
Fu Bo,

First, remember that XML Schema must also be valid XML files. So
really, if you find an XML tool that does what you want, you are golden.
Are you looking for (open) source code you can build on a tool?

JEdit has an XML plugin that will put the XML into a tree.
(http://www.jedit.org).

Ray

[Bob Foster]

Re: convert XSD to tree representation

What sort of tree are you looking for?

If you just want an element tree, almost all XML editors will do that.

Bob Foster

http://www.xmlbuddy.com/

"Fu Bo Xia" <fubo.x@optusho me.com.au> wrote in message
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> anyone know a Java (or Java usable) package that converts XML Schema (XSD)
> documents into a tree form?
>
>
> thanks,
> fu bo
>
>[/color]

[Gregory Vaughan]

Re: convert XSD to tree representation

We market a shareware product called DTDChart that displays a document
structure as a tree chart. You would have to convert the XSD into a DTD
first. Not sure if this is the kind of thing you are looking for.

More info at http://www.intsysr.com/dtdchart.htm

"Fu Bo Xia" <fubo.x@optusho me.com.au> wrote in message
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> anyone know a Java (or Java usable) package that converts XML Schema (XSD)
> documents into a tree form?
>
>
> thanks,
> fu bo
>
>[/color]

[Fu Bo Xia]

Re: convert XSD to tree representation

sorry let me clearify my question,

i'm looking for a java API that will convert a XML Schema (XSD) document
from a textual representation to a tree representation that's stored in a
tree structured object. for example if i have the following XSD:


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace ="http://www.books.org"
xmlns="http://www.books.org"
elementFormDefa ult="qualified" >
<xsd:element name="bookstore ">
<xsd:complexTyp e>
<xsd:squence>
<xsd:element ref="novel"/>
<xsd:element ref="journal"/>
</xsd:squence>
</xsd:complexType >
</xsd:element>
<xsd:element name="novel">
<xsd:complexTyp e>
<xsd:squence>
<xsd:element ref="exemplar"/>
</xsd:squence>
</xsd:complexType >
</xsd:element>
<xsd:element name="journal">
<xsd:complexTyp e>
<xsd:squence>
<xsd:element ref="exemplar"/>
</xsd:squence>
</xsd:complexType >
</xsd:element>
<xsd:element name="exemplar" >
<xsd:complexTyp e>
<xsd:squence>
<xsd:element name="title" type="xsd:strin g"/>
<xsd:element name="author" type="xsd:strin g"/>
</xsd:squence>
</xsd:complexType >
</xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>

this will convert to a tree similar to the one pictured here:

http://tinyurl.com/mt9t

of course there's no way to capture every detail of a XSD into a tree, but
that's not what i'm looking for.

alternatively, could you point to a some good Java XML parsing tutorials.


thanks,
fu bo

[Raymond DeCampo]

Re: convert XSD to tree representation

Fu Bo Xia wrote:[color=blue]
> sorry let me clearify my question,
>
> i'm looking for a java API that will convert a XML Schema (XSD) document
> from a textual representation to a tree representation that's stored in a
> tree structured object. for example if i have the following XSD:
>[/color]

Why don't you just parse it as XML using Xerces, for example? Then you
will have a standard DOM structure which is very tree-like.
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>
> this will convert to a tree similar to the one pictured here:
> http://tinyurl.com/mt9t
> of course there's no way to capture every detail of a XSD into a tree, but
> that's not what i'm looking for.
>
> alternatively, could you point to a some good Java XML parsing tutorials.
>[/color]

See the Xerces site on http://xml.apache.org.

Ray