Software can support or be aware of XML Schema in a variety ofways. XML Schema 1.0 defines conformance only for the class ofschema-based validators; this may change in XML Schema 1.1.
Note that a great deal of software for editing and using Web Services whose interfacesare defined with WSDL implicitly handles XML Schemas to describe the structure ofinput message types and output message types from operations provided by those Web Services.
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[Included below are some packages listed on the public XML Schema page.It would be highly desirable to have short essays (in this page or onseparate pages) on each major class of software.]
Schema-based validators and general toolkits
These tools perform what the spec refers to as 'schema-validity assessment'.(The spec avoids the term 'validation' on the grounds that that term iseffectively reserved for DTD-based validation.)
Some of these are effectively front ends to engines also availableindependently; since not all vendors go into detail about whether theyhave implemented their own validator or licensed one from elsewhere,no attempt has been made to distinguish these cases.
- Apache XML::Xerces (Perl wrapper for Xerces-C)
- MSXML,
- Syntext XSV (N.B. this
- XML::Schema::Validate (Perl
- XSV by Henry Thompson (not to be confused
- XML Nanny by Todd Ditchendorf (GUI XML validator for OS X)
Acronis disk director suite for mac. Some tools listed elsewhere (e.g. the editors and the XQuery and XSLTengines) will also support validation when requested in the relevantcontext.
There are Web interfaces to at least two validation servers:
Schema-aware XML editors and editing tools
This list is almost certainly not complete.
Generators of XML Schemas from UML, MOF, EMOF
- Sparx XSD Generation (generates XSD from UML)
Generators of XML Schemas from Relational Database Schemas
To be supplied.
Generators of XML Schemas from RDF Schemas or OWL Ontologies
To be supplied.
Data binding tools
These are tools for mapping from XML to programming-language datastructures or objects, and vice versa; those listed here take schemasinto account. Frequently they generate class shells from a schema,or vice versa.
- Eclipse Modeling Framework provides data binding services between Java programs and XML data they process
- JaxB (reference implementation in the Java Web Services Developers Pack)
- JaxMe (Apache implementation of JaxB)
- Rogue Wave LEIF (Lightweight
- SchemaWare has tools for a variety of
See also Ron Bourret'sXML Data Binding Resources page.
Form generators
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Generation of HTML forms or XForms to 'fill in the blanks' of a document.
Generators of UML, MOF, EMOF from XML Schema
- Eclipse Modeling Framework utilities can be used to build an eCore representation (very close to OMG's EMOF) from an XML Schema, which it does by making use of Eclipse XML Schema Infoset Model.
To be supplied.
Generators of Relational Database Schemas from XML Schemas
To be supplied.
Generators of RDF Schemas or OWL Ontologies from XML Schemas
To be supplied.
Schema-writing and maintenance tools
- GEFEG EDIFIX (tool for EDI work)
- KLEEN (Eclipse plug-in for asset-oriented modeling)
- IBM Rational Software Architect includes an XML Schema editor
- Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project will include an XML Schema editor
Some data binding tools also have tools to read a set of class declarationsand generate an XML Schema document.
Schema induction tools
Some tools listed elsewhere can also generate schemas from XML instances. Winbox for mac os x.
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Schema conversion
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- Sparx XSD Generation (generates XSD from UML)
Tools for exploring or displaying information about schemas
Some of these are interactive tools for browsing schema documents; othersgenerate HTML from schema documents, in the expectation that the only browseryou want to use is your Web browser.
Schema version n+1 vs version n difference visualizers
To be supplied.
Schema analyzers
Schema-aware XSLT and XQuery engines
Miscellaneous
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- Utilities from schemaValid.com
- Eclipse XML Schema Infoset Model is a library which allows Java programmers to construct, manipulate or navigate through Java objects corresponding to a W3C XML Schema, as well as serialize or deserialize schemas stored in one or more XML Schema documents. It can be used inside Eclipse or outside of Eclipse.
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