XSD to XML transformer

[Martijn]

Because XSD (XML Schema Document) is a definition of the
XML document, there must be a parser that can read a XSD
file and give the complete XML file as a result.

Is there something like this, or do I have to create it by
my own??

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

There is no official tool in the .NET Framework that does this.
VS.NET generates datasets from XML Schema.
There are third party efforts that generate XML files, eg Altova XMLSpy .

The problem is not well constrained. For a given XSD, there are potentially
zillions of valid XML documents. Given an XML document and an XSD, you can
validate the XML doc, but given an XSD only, generation of a valid XML doc
is an open ended question. The way xmlspy does it - it asks you if you want
to generate non-mandatory elements, or not. Likewise non-mandatory
attributes. And it asks how many elements in an unbounded sequence to
generate.

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Because XSD (XML Schema Document) is a definition of the
XML document, there must be a parser that can read a XSD
file and give the complete XML file as a result.

Is there something like this, or do I have to create it by
my own??

[Martijn de Bont]

Thanx dino,

I did see that problem also, but that would not be an issue... First I
need a tool to convert it.
The validation tool that .NET supplies give an errorreport at which
line, which column and which element. But if we look in XMLSpy it can
also say which element/attribute is expected (or not expected).
This would be great to use at this kind of a transformer.
Idea of next release??
Or is this also possible in VS C++ .NET??

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