Re: [xml-dev] Graphical DTD/XSD Viewer

[Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

I reckon schema designers / architects should all have access to or
possess at least a
couple of these graphical tools. (Liquid XML used to be a free one but
I haven't looked
recently. There may be community editions of some of the widely used
ones which are
free for non-commerical use.) Not having such a tool and using it to
at least preview how
your crafted schema will look to someone who veiws it that way seems
to me to be akin
in some ways to a web publisher who doesn't preview their web pages in
at least the
few most commonly used browsers. I appreciate schemas are as much for internal
software system use as for human reference but surely the human
reference aspect is
very important.

best regards

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Stephen D Green



On 8 February 2011 14:22, Rudder, Doug Jr <Doug.Rudder@wolterskluwer.com> wrote:
> Hi, all -
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Thanks for your help,
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> Douglas Rudder
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> Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions
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> Phone: 314-216-2227
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> email: Doug.Rudder@wolterskluwer.com
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