Generate XML FROM XSD

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I have to use multiple XSD files from a state agency. They could change quite often. Is there a way to use the xsd files to generate xml files at runtime in vb.net?

Posted 20-Jan-11 6:17am

duncanthescott

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Estys 20-Jan-11 12:22pm

How do you mean "they could change quite often"? XSD are a form of contact for data-exchange, they shouldn't change (often). Anyway, how would you detect the changes a runtime?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-11 12:29pm

There is not such contract which never changes... No, no, it makes sense, I would understand that. Event in production with support it may change -- incrementally, without breaking of validity of legacy data.

What I don't understand: what should be in the XMLs? XSD XML is meta-data for other XMLs which should conform to this meta-data, so each (non-trivial) XSD could generate infinite amount of conforming XMLs. What's the idea behind?

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Yusuf · Answer 1 · 2011-01-20T06:55:00

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Look at this MSDN article:

Generating XML Documents from XML Schemas[^]

Posted 20-Jan-11 6:55am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-11 13:07pm

This is a good reference (my 5) but I doubt OP needs that samples to generate.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-11 13:09pm

@duncanthescott: again, what's the idea? do you want to reconcile old XML data to conform the new schema by XSDs? Than it is quite a non-trivial (and kind of interesting) project.

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-01-20T06:50:00

I believe that a XSD file is nothing more than an XML file missing the header line. If you create a StringBuilder object, start it out with the xml file header, read the xsd file in as text and append the text to the StringBuilder object, you can then just call XDocuiment.Parse(stringBuilder.ToString()), and Bob's your uncle.