Processing XSD Schema File

[Porthos]

One of the virtues of using schemas is that they are XML documents
themselves. I have several schema files (one imports the next, which
imports the next, and so on) that describe/enforce the rules for XML
instance documents that I create.

I want to read and process these schema files using an XSL(T) document
to produce a user friendly/more readable version of these rules. I can
take care of the formatting, but how do I access the tags in the schema
documents from my XSL(T) file to get the information in the first
place?

Thanks,

-James

 

[Martin Honnen]

One of the virtues of using schemas is that they are XML documents
themselves. I have several schema files (one imports the next, which
imports the next, and so on) that describe/enforce the rules for XML
instance documents that I create.

I want to read and process these schema files using an XSL(T) document
to produce a user friendly/more readable version of these rules. I can
take care of the formatting, but how do I access the tags in the schema
documents from my XSL(T) file to get the information in the first
place?

That is not different from any XSLT task (well XSLT processing an XML
file with namespaces) e.g.:
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="xsd:element">
...
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>