RE: [xml-dev] Schema aware creation of XML.. Question

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> I thought 
> about reading the schema directly "as XML" (say an XSD or RNG 
> xml formatted schema), but I think that may be very difficult 
> becauase the schema is not fully expanded.  There are a lot 
> of "rules" that have to be processed for a schema to make sense.

If you want to pursue that option, Saxon allows you to export a schema in an
XML format called SCM (for Schema Component Model) which is close to the
abstract model of schema components defined in the XSD spec - it should be
much easier to work from this than from raw XSD schema documents.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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