I agree with Michael. Not only are they incomprehensible, but for all but the most trivial schemas you simply cannot see enough detail on a single page to make sense of it. I find them more useful as an interactive outlining tool to help find places in the schema to look. Here’s an example of a *very simple* schema and what the diagram looks like (This one is from Stylus Studio). http://xml.calldei.com/JsonXML here http://xml.calldei.com/JsonXML/files.xml?action=download&file=jxml.jpg I included this diagram as an experiment on the web page but honestly looking at it I can’t make much sense out of it even though I’ve used the tool for years. Anything much more complex than this and even on a huge monitor its only slightly useful if you can focus in and drill down on parts, while collapsing others,. From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com] On 08/02/2011 14:22, Rudder, Doug Jr wrote: Hi, all - A request just came in from our publishing systems manager asking if there is a good tool to represent DTDS or XSDs as a graphical image. One of our new associates wants something more understandable than a DTD/XSD (they are new to the XML world, but want to leverage our data in their product). I don't currently use such a tool myself, so I thought I'd post the question to the list to find out what tools may be available for this purpose. Thanks for your help, ============================ Douglas Rudder XML Data Architect Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions 77 West Port Plaza, Suite 450 St. Louis, MO 63146 Phone: 314-216-2227 email: Doug.Rudder@wolterskluwer.com ============================
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