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RE: Java API for Accessing XML Schema

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• Subject: RE: Java API for Accessing XML Schema
• From: "Wannheden, Knut" <knut.wannheden@p...>
• Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:03:19 +0100

Also take a look at the Eclipse XSD Project (http://eclipse.org/xsd/) which builds on Eclipse EMF (http://eclipse.org/xsd/).

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knut

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hayden Marchant [mailto:hayden@u...]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 7. November 2002 10:51
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> Subject: Java API for Accessing XML Schema
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>
>
> I am looking for an API that will give me a complete view of
> the whole XMLSchema - attributeGroups, element groups,
> references to attribute groups, knowledge of the location of
> a definition of an object (i.e. tracking of imported/included
> constructs), documentation tags, etc... I need the sort of
> API that a typical XML Schema GUI Tool has internally.
>
> There are plenty of implementations of XML Parsers (xerces,
> xml4j, orcle xdk, ....), XML Schema to Java binding APIs
> (JAXB implementations, sun, zeus,castor,...) that are
> internally parsing an XML Schema into a java object.
>
> However, I have found that the XML Parsers generally do not
> keep all of the schema information - they only keep what is
> relevant for validation, like document tags, annotation, and
> attribute groups are resolved into a list of attributes. The
> same thing with the Java binding APIs - information only
> relevant to the binding process is preserved, and everything
> else is ignored.
>
> Does anyone know of such an API out there that will be rich
> enough for my needs? If I don't get any responses, I will
> probably need to develop such an API myself. If I do this, I
> will seriously consider releasing it as OpenSource.
> 
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