Laying out XML Schema elements in hierarchy

[Dhanunjay]

Hello All,

I am actually trying to laying out XML schema elements in the hierarchy. Do we have this kind of feature in Oxygen else is it possible to do in any other way. we do mapping document for the interfaces we prepare. Today we do manually. If we can do the tool or any programmatic way it would be really helpful. To better understand, I will example.

Example:

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<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"   

           xmlns:tns="http://tempuri.org/PurchaseOrderSchema.xsd"   

           targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org/PurchaseOrderSchema.xsd"   

           elementFormDefault="qualified">  

 <xsd:element name="PurchaseOrder" type="tns:PurchaseOrderType"/>  

 <xsd:complexType name="PurchaseOrderType">  

  <xsd:sequence>  

   <xsd:element name="ShipTo" type="tns:USAddress" maxOccurs="2"/>  

   <xsd:element name="BillTo" type="tns:USAddress"/>  

  </xsd:sequence>  

  <xsd:attribute name="OrderDate" type="xsd:date"/>  

 </xsd:complexType>  

  

 <xsd:complexType name="USAddress">  

  <xsd:sequence>  

   <xsd:element name="name"   type="xsd:string"/>  

   <xsd:element name="street" type="xsd:string"/>  

   <xsd:element name="city"   type="xsd:string"/>  

   <xsd:element name="state"  type="xsd:string"/>  

   <xsd:element name="zip"    type="xsd:integer"/>  

  </xsd:sequence>  

  <xsd:attribute name="country" type="xsd:NMTOKEN" fixed="US"/>  

 </xsd:complexType>  

</xsd:schema> 

I wanna generate following from this schema:

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PurchaseOrder

  ShipTo

    name

    street

    city

    state

    zip

  ShipTo

  BillTo

   name

    street

    city

    state

    zip

  BillTo

 OrderDate

 country

PurchaseOrder

Please Let me know if there is any way to achieve this

[adrian]

Hi,

It's not clear what you have now and what is the desired end result.
What do you have now, schema or XML file?
What are you trying to obtain, maybe schema with a different element hierarchy?

There is no XML Schema mapper in Oxygen, if that's what you're looking for.
You can use the Design mode from Oxygen XML Editor or Developer to manually rearrange the element hierarchy from the XML schema (XSD).
If you have XML sample files, you can use Tools > Generate/Convert Schema to generate an XML Schema from the files.
If you have the XML schema file and want to generate sample XML files, you can use Tools > Generate Sample XML Files.

Regards,
Adrian

[rwradema]

I think I can relate to the OP, I have a similar situation. I have a completed XSD that has been validated and we need a better visualization. The documentation tools are great, but perhaps an improved "sort" could be in order.

For example, a top-down sort would be to find all elements who are not dependents...they are not references to any other elements. Then descend down in sort order from each of these top-level modules by looking at their complexContent, recursively. This wold generate a tree-like structure.

The document is now generated in this descent order (probably removing lots of details removed, like model, source, etc). The idea is a simple roadmap, maybe with hyperlinks to the more detailed table documentation for that element.

Of course a bottom-up method would simply invert the graph but not the descent algorithm.