Hi all,
> 1. Has anyone here done something similar?
Yeah, I've done something similar on a project I'm currently working on.
Starting from an XML Schema definition, we generate HTML forms for the Front
Office part, screens for visualization of data entered in form for the Back
Office part (forms instruction), XSL-FO files for PDF generation, business
objects with XDoclet information (@hibernate tags) and other minor things ...
> 2. Are there any obvious tools I that I have overseen?
At the time we started the project (last summer), I've not find any tool to do
this. So we use directly the XML Beans API for the parsing of the XML Schema
and we defined an interface that listeners have to implement to receive
information about the schema (à la SAX). The main entry point of the
generation process looks like this :
public void parseXsdFile(File xsdFile) {
try {
logger.debug("parseXsdFile() Parsing XSD file : " + xsdFile);
SchemaTypeLoader loader =
XmlBeans.typeLoaderForClassLoader(SchemaDocument.class.getClassLoader());
XmlObject[] xmlObjects = new XmlObject[1];
xmlObjects[0] = loader.parse(xsdFile, null, null);
SchemaTypeSystem sts =
XmlBeans.compileXsd(xmlObjects,
XmlBeans.getBuiltinTypeSystem(),
null);
SchemaGlobalElement[] globals = sts.globalElements();
for (int i = 0; i < globals.length; i++) {
SchemaGlobalElement sge = globals[i];
targetNamespace = sge.getName().getNamespaceURI();
logger.debug("parseXsdFile() Target namespace : " +
targetNamespace);
// here, we send an event to listeners to tell them a new
// global element parsing has started
// ...
SchemaType st = sge.getType();
SchemaType basicType = sge.getType().getBaseType();
// used to retrieve local annotations of elements
SchemaParticle schemaParticle = st.getContentModel();
SchemaProperty[] properties = st.getProperties();
for (int k = 0; k < properties.length; k++) {
SchemaProperty property = properties[k];
// process property and send events to listeners
}
// send event to listeners about end of global element parsing
}
} catch (XmlException xe) {
logger.debug("XMLException : " + xe.getMessage());
xe.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ie) {
logger.debug("IOException : " + ie.getMessage());
ie.printStackTrace();
}
}
Regards,
Benoit.
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