Re: generate common xml shema from multiple xml instances

Hi,
  If you are looking to build such a utility yourself, you need to
consider few points, like mentioned below:

Let's say your instance document is following (i.e., having two
"person" elements):

<people>
 <person>..</person>
 <person>..</person>
</people>

You need to decide for example:

1) What value of occurrence indicator, you want to have? Do you need
the value "unbounded" or want it to be a specific number?

for e.g.,

<xs:element name="person" type="Person" maxOccurs="unbounded" />

OR

<xs:element name="person" type="Person" maxOccurs="10" />

2) Should the complex type "Person" be a named type or an anonymous type?

Inferring the XSD structure in an automated way from multiple XML
files, could be inaccurate.

I believe, you need some amount of manual adjustment of the XSD, even
if it's generated by some tool.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Rita Shen<shaledova@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I generate a common XML schema for multiple xml instances??
> I know many tools can generate an XSD from a single XML instance.
> But in my case, I want to get the unknown common XSD for a bunch of XML
> instances.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> syt

--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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