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Re: Graphical DTD/XSD Viewer

• From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
• To: "Rudder, Doug Jr" <Doug.Rudder@wolterskluwer.com>
• Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:12:45 +0100

Rudder, Doug Jr wrote:

> A request just came in from our publishing systems manager asking if
> there is a good tool to represent DTDS or XSDs as a graphical image. One
> of our new associates wants something more understandable than a DTD/XSD
> (they are new to the XML world, but want to leverage our data in their
> product).

For such requests I usually generate schema documentation including
diagrams using oXygen editor and I suppose that other tools has similar
functionality.

There are also available some open-source tools to generate basic
visualization of schema, for example:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsdvi/


			Jirka


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    • From: "Rudder, Doug Jr" <Doug.Rudder@wolterskluwer.com>