Re: Software to generate all valid XML instances from a XML schema

From
Robert C. Lyons <>
To
, Steve Betten <>
Date
2004-04-25T19:39:22Z
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Re: Software to generate all valid XML instances from a XML schema
Steve Betten wrote:
 > Is there any software that can generate all valid XML instances from a
 > specified XML schema?

Steve,

If your XML schema uses <key> and <keyref> elements, then I doubt that 
you'll find a software package that will generate XML instances that 
conform to the schema. In the general case, this problem is undecidable. 
For more info, please see:

 http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme03/html/2003/Lyons01/EML2003Lyons01.html

Best regards,

Bob
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Bob Lyons
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