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[David Gray]

Is it possible to generate an XML schema from XML data?

Dave

[Martin Honnen]

David Gray wrote:

Is it possible to generate an XML schema from XML data?

Yes, that is possible, most XML editors can do that for you.
The .NET framework SDK also has a tool xsd.exe that can do that for
your, see
<URL:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6c1kb0s(VS.80).aspx>
The .NET framework also has a class so that you can do it
programmatically in your .NET application:
<URL:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.schema.xmlschemainference.aspx>

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Martin Honnen
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[David Gray]

Downloaded "Liquid XML Studio (Freeware)" but it keeps bombing out
when I try generate the schema. Will have a look for something else.

We've not really adopted .net at this site as yet, in fact most of our
systems are "legacy". I have VS 2005 but am looking for just a quick
win on generating this schema so I can load the data into sql server.

My boss seems to think a 4GL dating from the 1990s is the best way to
consume this data feed.... Argh!!!

Regards
Dave


On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:45:39 +0200, Martin Honnen <ma*******@yahoo.de>
wrote:

>David Gray wrote:

>Is it possible to generate an XML schema from XML data?

Yes, that is possible, most XML editors can do that for you.
The .NET framework SDK also has a tool xsd.exe that can do that for
your, see
<URL:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6c1kb0s(VS.80).aspx>
The .NET framework also has a class so that you can do it
programmatically in your .NET application:
<URL:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.schema.xmlschemainference.aspx>

[Joseph J. Kesselman]

David Gray wrote:

Is it possible to generate an XML schema from XML data?

There have been many tools which attempted this. It isn't hard to
generate a schema which will validate the sample data. It's
significantly harder to generate a schema which *correctly* models all
the possible variations of the data, if the samples don't cover all of
them (and usually they don't). Generally, these tools will need human
assistance before you'll have a schema that's actually worth using.