Re: [xml-dev] Is there a tool to progressively refine the schemagenerate

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>]

That's a neat idea -- thank you Michael!

This was also proposed by another reader who replied off-list.

So, we are hoping that the tool is intelligent enough to find the
similarities between the children of the document element and generate
a single type for them all.

Probably a proper ordering of the children could facilitate this
recognition process.

Cheers,
Dimitre

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is anybody aware of a tool that will take as input all N different
>> schemas generated and create from them a single schema that is the
>> "unification" (for a lack of better word) of all of them -- in other
>> words defines the type of all XML document instances.
>>
>
>
> I suspect it is easier to produce a tool that takes N instances and produces a single schema that describes them all.
>
> When I wrote my DTD generator (still available at http://saxon.sourceforge.net/dtdgen.html) I never got round to productising the ability to take multiple input files, but I did successfully use it that way simply by putting in a filter that concatenated the files (with a wrapper element) before processing.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica



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