RE: Tool for flattening distributed XML schemas

Hi Andreas,

RuleML uses such a "distributed XML schema" to define a family of
sublanguages:

http://www.ruleml.org/modularization/#derivation

Unfortunately, I know of no such "flattening" tool for XML Schema. DTDs,
on the other hand, are a different story: there seem to be at least a
couple (probably because of relative ease of implementation).

Such a tool for XML Schema would indeed be very useful. It would save me
a lot of documentation time!

David

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> Subject: Tool for flattening distributed XML schemas
> 
> Hello,
> 
> consider the case of constructing a distributed XML schema:
> 
> One top level file besides defining the root element includes 
> other "library" files, actually referencing only some of the 
> types provided by those.  Some type definitions are taken 
> unchanged, others get redefined.
> Thus it may become quite complicated to understand the 
> resulting XML language.
> 
> Does anyone know about a tool (API, script, algorithm, ...) 
> that is able to "flatten" the distributed schema, that is 
> filtering out all superfluous types, resolving the 
> redefinitions and presenting the result as a new, equivalent schema?
> 
> Open source tools would be preferred :-)
> 
> Thanks for you attention, Andreas
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