Generating XML Schema Documentations

XSD Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟XML Editor and Schema Processor - XMLPad

∟Generating XML Schema Documentations

This section describes a tutorial example on how to generate XML schema documentation in HTML format from an XSD document using XMLPad.

Another nice feature of XMLPad is generating XML schema documentation based on the XML Schema (XSD) document. The following tutorial example shows you how to do this from our first XSD document, first_html.xsd.

1. Run XMLPad and click menu File > Open. Select c:\herong\first_html.xsd in the "Open" dialog box. XMLPad displays the XSD document in the edit window:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
 <xs:element name="html" type="htmlType"/>
 <xs:complexType name="htmlType">
  <xs:sequence>
   <xs:element name="body" type="xs:string"/>
  </xs:sequence>
 </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

2. Click the "Documentation" button at the bottom of the editor window. XMLPad will generate a nice looking XML Schema Documentation in HTML format with:

Table of Contents - Links to different sections: Schema Document Properties, Global Declarations, Global Definitions, Legend, Glossary.
Schema Document Properties - Properties of the "schema" component.
Global Declarations - "element" components declared at the top level.
Global Definitions - Custom datatypes defined at the top level.