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(Deleted User) Subject: Off-Topic Question - Looking for an XSD Dependency Graph utility
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 28 Jun 2007 08:59 AM
Originally Posted: 28 Jun 2007 04:15 AM
This is off-topic (not Stylus Studio related), but I hope it's OK and might give me some leads or ideas. And, might be useful for other people lurking here.

I'm looking for a utility that will generate both a well-laid-out dependency graph for XSDs in a schema set, and (even more useful, for my purpose) a utility that will traverse the dependency chain/tree and generate a simple text list (preferably with additional info like include/import/ext, parent-child, etc).

I had a play around with Altova's SchemaAgent (a good product, as far as it goes - with links to other XML Spy stuff).

But it doesn't do text output or reports of the type that I think would be really useful. The "vNext" will have a more sensible graphics format for output, and they say that some of the suggestions I made are being considered, but even at $129 it's a bit of a toy.

Anyway, if anyone here has suggestions about tools that might give dependency lists (or graphs), please let me know.

Ian

[Edited] How did the Subject come out as Office-topic? AAAGH! ]

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(Deleted User) Subject: Off-Topic Question - Looking for an XSD Dependency Graph utility
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 28 Jun 2007 09:41 AM
With a careful search, i find that there are some open source projects and commercial products that do this, to varying degrees of conformance with what would be useful to me.

Ian

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Tony LavinioSubject: Off-Topic Question - Looking for an XSD Dependency Graph utility
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 28 Jun 2007 09:57 AM
Since XML Schema files are themselves XML, it shouldn't be hard
to write code that traverses the schema tree, just selecting on
xs:import and xs:include and xs:redefine.

The only trick will be catching recursion.

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(Deleted User) Subject: Off-Topic Question - Looking for an XSD Dependency Graph utility
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 28 Jun 2007 10:21 AM
Originally Posted: 28 Jun 2007 10:19 AM
Yes, I wrote something reasonably useful myself, in .NET, a few weeks ago.

The recursion is a fairly standard thing to watch out for, and for a text-only report I can do this.

But there are quite sophisticated algorithms for doing this efficiently (generic), and to render a nice graphic is more difficult. I haven't done that.

You probably don't use (Lutz Roeder's) Reflector, a .NET program for investigating .NET assemblies. There are nice add_ins that 'reverse engineer' .NET prgs to reveal such relationships, including 2 that display this in a graphical form.

It would be nice to reveal the same, for XSD files with a common parentage.

I think there are better utilities available, and I continue to look for them.

Ian T.

 
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