You might want to try sending this to the MSV list to see if they can help.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/msv-interest/ I notice that the W3C DOM group just decided to push back on the abstract schema API, as I guess this is kinda hard stuff. One thought could be, try make an XSLT to turn your schema documents into something a little bit more understandable, then just use a simple XML model to represent this stuff. <type name="Address"> <property name="street" type="String" cardinality="1..1"/> <property name="city" type="String" cardinality="1..1"/> </type> Then you could just use regular XPath on it? Though this a massive simplification of the problem - I've often found code-generator type of things just need a simple flat model of types and their properties. James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian W. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "James Strachan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] schema needs/wants & MSV? > Well, unfortunately we have some fairly specific needs to have > programatic access to the data in a schema. I think we've worked out > some of the basic problems (like "includes") but we've still got some > difficulty with MSV: > > 1) We need to locate a simple example of using the MVS AGM to construct > an object containing the element/attribute structure including cardinality > 2) or, we need to determine how to obtain/capture cardinality while > using an ExpressionWalker to capture the element/attribute structure > > If anybody can help here, I'd be very grateful. > Thanks > > > James Strachan wrote: > > >From: "Brian W. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>We have a need to parse a schema and basically denormalize it- expand > >>everything out into one document. For example, if the schema includes 4 > >>other schemas and references complex datatypes, we'd like to be able to > >>run this schema thru some engine and get back a document that has been > >>expanded out to include the 4 separate schemas, and the complex > >>datatypes should be expanded out into basic individual types. > >> > >>Any ideas? Is MSV an option? I've looked at it but it doesn't look > >>like it does what I want right off the bat, and I'm not sure I could > >>figure it out enough to make something work. > >> > >> > > > >Could you use XSLT for this? Essentially copying everything through as is > >but just processing the <xsd:include> elements to actually include, in > >place, the referenced schema documents? > > > >Or you could just parse the document as a dom4j Document object then find > >the <include> elements then swap them with the root elements of the included > >documents. > > > >James > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > >Welcome to geek heaven. > >http://thinkgeek.com/sf > >_______________________________________________ > >dom4j-user mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Gadgets, caffeine, t-shirts, fun stuff. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > dom4j-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.comm ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
