Steve,
This kind of
conversion is the sort of thing that XSL is often used for, so that's certainly
an option. Seems to me the kind of tool you're describing would need to provide
a UI through which you can "map" aspects of one XML shape (schema) to the other.
I don't know of such a tool, although I know that XMLSpy offers an XSL design
environment.
Since you have
schema for both XML shapes, there's a non-XSL option that that involves Java and
XMLBeans. You could compile both of your schemas using scomp, then write Java
code that copies values from an instance of one schema into a new instance of
the other schema. So if schema A has a Foo element of type xs:string, and schema B has a
Bar element of type xs:string (with parent Baz), you could do something like
this:
newBaz.setBar(incomingFoo.getStringValue());
I think you'd need
to convert non-string values to strings where necessary. You could also use
XPath to get values from the incoming schema (which is what XSL does
anyway).
I don't know how
efficient this is, and it feels like a wacky use of schema, but it's an idea for
someone unfamiliar with XSL, but comfortable with Java.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Lu, Shengkai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:58 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: auto generate xsl based on 2 different xml schema files?I need to convert xml files that conform to one xml schema to another schema instance xml files. What would be the best approach? I'm thinking xslt might be a good choice. I would expect to have a tool that reads 2 xml schema files and spits out a xsl file, I can then use any transformer program to convert one xml file into other format with the xsl file. Is there such tool exist? Thanks in advance.
Steve Lu
