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]

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

thanks,
fu bo

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]

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/

 

[Gregory Vaughan]

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]

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" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xsd:element name="bookstore"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:squence> <xsd:element ref="novel"/> <xsd:element ref="journal"/> </xsd:squence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="novel"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:squence> <xsd:element ref="exemplar"/> </xsd:squence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="journal"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:squence> <xsd:element ref="exemplar"/> </xsd:squence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="exemplar"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:squence> <xsd:element name="title" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="author" type="xsd:string"/> </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]

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:

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.

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.

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

Ray