Dictionary for XML elements

[llanii]

Hi,

My team uses XML extensively at work. We have created over 80 service to support various projects and/or systems. The demand for our service is continuously growing.

We are looking at implementing some kind of a dictionary for all th XML elements used in our services. This dictionary would help us among other things, determine whether a specific or similar XML elemen already exists, the relationship between this specific XML element an others, in which schema this XML element exists, etc.

We would like to be able to explore the various options there are ou there, and also do some comparisons among those options.

Can anyone help

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llani

 

[kahrs]

We are looking at implementing some kind of a dictionary for all the XML elements used in our services. This dictionary would help us, among other things, determine whether a specific or similar XML element already exists, the relationship between this specific XML element and others, in which schema this XML element exists, etc.

We would like to be able to explore the various options there are out there, and also do some comparisons among those options.

Do you mean a kind of Cross-Referencing tool ?

Such a tool would list all the elements in your
XSL files and make hierarchical dependencies
visible in a kind of "call-graph".

Such a tool should be trivial to implement.
So, I am not sure if I have understood your
intentions correctly.

 

[FLEB]

Regarding this well-known quote, often attributed to kahrs's famous "Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:07:34 +0200" speech:

Do you mean a kind of Cross-Referencing tool ?

Such a tool would list all the elements in your
XSL files and make hierarchical dependencies
visible in a kind of "call-graph".

Such a tool should be trivial to implement.
So, I am not sure if I have understood your
intentions correctly.

Well, I'm just a noob to XML, but I'd think that if you're using XML Schema, which is valid XML in-and-of itself, I imagine you could make it a policy to throw in some minor markup (in another namespace, p'r'aps?), then attack it with the right XSL transform, and just generate the "manual" like that.

Granted, that's a huge initial investment of time...