Dominik Marks

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April 11, 2006

Generating XML files from XML Schema

There are some existing tools that are able to create XML instances from XML Schema definitions. These are (incomplete list):

• Sun XML Instance Generator (Supports DTD, RELAX, TREX, Part of XML Schema. Can generate invalid documents, too)
• XML-XIG (Early stage SourceForge project)
• Microsoft .NET XmlSampleGenerator (limitations: xs:key, xs:keyref, xs:unique, xs:ENTITY, xs:ENTITIES and xs:NOTATION not supported, incomplete support for xs:pattern and xs:base64Binary)
• Altova XMLSpy (Commercial product)
• My own implementation so far (xs:pattern, xs:substitutionGroup, xs:any, xs:anyAttribute, xs:key, xs:keyRef, xs:unique, xs:notation, xs:annotation not supported, yet)

  Posted by Dominik Marks at April 11, 2006 05:29 PM

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