RE: Browsing XML Schema Data from XSLT

The WGs explicitly decided not to include such a "reflection" capability in
the current version of the languages, I think because of the amount of
design work involved. I agree that it's a pain working from the source XML
representation of the schema. It would be better to have an XML "normalized"
view of the schema component model.

With Saxon there's an alternative approach of implementing a set of
extension functions that encapsulate Saxon's Java API for schema access.
That's not ideal either because the navigation is likely to be very tedious.
A custom NodeInfo implementation in which a Node represents a schema
component would be better: but I'm afraid that there are no immediate plans.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 June 2006 15:57
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Browsing XML Schema Data from XSLT
> 
> Is there any chance that there is a facility in XSLT 2.0 for 
> interrogating the xml-schemae that have been imported by 
> <xsl:import-schema>?
> 
> I was imagining doing a <xsl:for-each> over the attributes 
> and/or elements defined in a  particular schema type.
> 
> I understand that I can simply read the XSD as a separate XML 
> document, but that means that I'll have to
> -- use  <xsl:import-schema> for the schema-based XSLT processing
> -- use "document()" to peruse the Schema definition within XSLT
> 
> It'd be nice to avoid having to specify the file location 
> separately for <xsl:import-schema> and for document().
> 
> thanks for any points
> 
> -alan
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