Re: Tool that finds unused simpleTypes?

Blasted autocorrect:  XQuery

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Loren Cahlander <loren.cahlander@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Absolutely.  It was just an off the cuff attempt.  It would take developing and Query or XSLT program to identify the unused simple types.
> 
>> On Mar 30, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com <mailto:mike@saxonica.com>> wrote:
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>> Shows the importance of stating requirements unambiguously! Loren has interpreted the question as meaning "simple types that are not referenced from anywhere in the schema", whereas I interpreted it as "simple types that are not used in the course of a particular validation episode".
>> 
>> But even if Loren's interpretation is correct, his solution is incomplete: it doesn't allow for multiple schema documents, it doesn't allow for @type having a namespace prefix, and it doesn't allow for references to a type from another type, e.g. in @base, @itemType, or @memberTypes.
>> 
>> Michael Kay
>> Saxonica
>> 
>>> On 30 Mar 2016, at 16:24, Loren Cahlander <loren.cahlander@gmail.com <mailto:loren.cahlander@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Try the following (untested) snippet
>>> 
>>> fn:distinct-values($schema//xs:simpleType/@name[not(.=$schema//xs:element/@type/string())])
>>> 
>>> Loren Cahlander
>>> 
>>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com <mailto:mike@saxonica.com>> wrote:
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>>>> Saxon's schema processor has the option -stats:filename to report on the usage of schema components during a validation episode. IIRC it only lists the components that were used (not those that weren't) but you could do some post-processing to derive this information.
>>>> 
>>>> Michael Kay
>>>> Saxonica
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 28 Mar 2016, at 17:42, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org <mailto:costello@mitre.org>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am seeking a Java tool that finds all unused simpleTypes in an XML Schema.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does such a tool exist?
>>>>> 
>>>>> /Roger
>>>>> 
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