RE: [xml-dev] Generating XML from XSD

[Carlo Innocenti <minollo@minollo.com>]

Well, at the cost of sounding a bit unpopular these days, I'll chime in...

We did a good amount of work in Stylus Studio to 
make our XML Schema to XML functionality able to 
generate valid XML fragments in most cases; we 
also try to take into consideration facets 
information to create sample data that is valid 
against the restrictions specified in the schema. 
I wouldn't claim that we *always* generate valid XML, though.

Give it a try, you can download it for free from 
http://www.stylusstudio.com/download

You can do that through File > Document Wizards, 
or opening a schema, right clicking on a schema 
entry and selecting "View XML Sample".

Minollo


At 01:51 PM 6/28/2007, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Isn't there any alternative other than XML Spy 
>and oXygen for this functionality?
>
>Shlomo.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anthony B. Coates (XML-Dev) [mailto:abcoatesecure-xmldev@yahoo.co.uk]
>Sent: γ 27 ιεπι 2007 20:20
>To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Generating XML from XSD
>
>It's already been mentioned that tools like XML Spy and oXygen have some
>capability to produce XML instances to match a Schema.  However, my own
>experience (mostly with users who had XML Spy) is that the tool often
>generated invalid instances, and the users then assumed that there was an
>error in the Schema that they had been given.
>
>In particular, I'm not sure if any tool will reliably generate valid
>instances if there are pattern restrictions in a Schema.  This may well be
>an intractable problem, to generate a valid string match a pattern for any
>arbitrary pattern.  Certainly it isn't a trivial problem.  It does mean,
>however, that you should never expect an XML instance generator to fully
>valid XML.  It may need editing to make it valid.
>
>Cheers, Tony.
>
>On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:55:46 +0100, Sagar Surana <sagar.surana@amdocs.com>
>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I want some kind of API's which can help generate a random XML based
> > on XSD.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Can someone please help me regarding the same.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Keep Smiling,
> >
> > Sagar Surana
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