JDOM B6 or later
http://www.jdom.org
Sample code to detatch a fragment:
//rng is a variable that "points" at the specific element and can access
all recursive information
Element fragment =
documentRoot.getChild("ElementOne").getChild("ElementTwo");
...
// Return branch as fragment. The detach() method will return the
entire tree recursively.
return fragment.detach();
enjoy!!!
Duane Nickull
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Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>Forwarding from XML-DEV - the original question was:
>
><Quote>
>I have been asked what tools can extract a part of a schema. The
>overall schema is large, complex, and imports five or six other schemas
>into several target namespaces. The individual involved wants to create
>a smaller subset that contains everything that one project needs, for
>the purposes of instruction and training.
></Quote>
>
>Please see my response below, discussing what our Registry will be able
>to do for him in the future.
>
>Joe
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: [xml-dev] Extract A Subset of a W3C XML Schema?
> From:
> Joseph Chiusano <>
> Date:
> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:57:09 -0400
> To:
> "Thomas B. Passin" <>
>
>
>Tom,
>
>This won't help you in the immediate present (don't you like it when a
>response starts like that?;) but:
>
>In the future, my vision is that the OASIS/ebXML Registry will allow one
>to do exactly this. The Registry architecture does not yet (explicitly)
>allow for the registration of "fine-grained" XML artifacts such as
>elements/attributes/datatypes/namespace identifiers, but I am working to
>ensure that in the future it will (and am confident that we will reach
>this goal within the next year).
>
>So, referencing your example, my vision is that one would be able to
>query the Registry for all elements/attributes/datatypes that belong to
>targetNamespace XYZ, and select a subset of those elements to be
>included in a new schema that is then assembled using that subset.
>
>Kind Regards,
>Joe Chiusano
>Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>Member, OASIS/ebXML Registry TC
>
>"Thomas B. Passin" wrote:
>
>
>>I have been asked what tools can extract a part of a schema. The overall
>>schema is large, complex, and imports five or six other schemas into several
>>target namespaces. The individual involved wants to create a smaller subset
>>that contains everything that one project needs, for the purposes of
>>instruction and training.
>>
>>The problem is how to get all the necessary pieces so that nothing is left
>>out that is required for the schema to work. XML Spy can be helpful with
>>its graphics, but there is no link from the graphics view to the text view,
>>so it is hard to find the pictured piece of the XML for copying. You can
>>do some degree of copying and pasting the graphics view blocks between
>>schemas, but of course you have to keep track yourself of the bits you have
>>already transferred. Also it is hard to be sure you have gotten everything
>>you need.
>>
>>Does anyone know of such a tool? If not, any suggestions based on actual
>>experience in doing this kind of task? It seems to me that finding all the
>>dependencies within the schema and its imports would be the hardest part.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Tom P
>>
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