Announce: Ant task for creating instances from XML (W3C) Schema

[Adam Flinton <adam.flinton@nhs.net>]

Dear All,

A new tool:

https://ant-tasks.projects.openhealthtools.org/source/browse/*checkout*/ant-tasks/trunk/AntTask-GenerateXML/index.html

An ant task which uses XMLbeans to create example XML instances from a
schema.

See:

https://ant-tasks.projects.openhealthtools.org/source/browse/*checkout*/ant-tasks/trunk/AntTask-GenerateXML/documentation/UserGuide.html

For the list of properties you must of can set.

Installation (including where to download the binary/zip file:

https://ant-tasks.projects.openhealthtools.org/source/browse/*checkout*/ant-tasks/trunk/AntTask-GenerateXML/documentation/Installation.html

It is especially useful for looking a pieces of schema as you can set
the element you wish to use as the root one.

It will use the values from enumerations are the fixed/default values
for attributes and elements if they are set.

It obeys the XML type system with the exception of regex/patterns.

If anyone knows of some Open Source  Java based "example from Regex"
code then please let me know as the one thing it is lacking is the
ability to create examples from patterns.

If anyone finds any bugs/wants any new features then....it is Open
source so please join in.



Adam



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