- From: Paul Kiel <paul@xmlhelpline.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:07:23 -0400
- To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <9C33F20F0E044A0282432CB2C8CC3E43@xmlguy>
Greetings, Have you ever had an Xml Schema that came from somewhere else (e.g. a trading partner or a standards consortium) and wanted to reduce the bulk of all the elements, attributes and types that you don't plan on implementing? Perhaps you want to communicate a simpler version of the data model within your enterprise or to another trading partner. Or maybe you are creating classes from the Schema and don't want lots of unused code generated for components not implemented. Yet you want to conform to the original Schema's data model. Until now, you have had the option of editing the Schema by hand or using a software tool. Additionally, you could implement the Schematron technology for adding additional constraints. As someone who has worked with schemas for many years, I have both wanted more tools for this myself as well as heard of the need from my clients. So I decided to create a free and simple solution. The Xml Schema Lightener is a completely free tool for creating what people refer to alternately as "Schema subsets" or in OAGIS terms "Lite BODs". Same data structure, fewer elements and types. A full FAQ is available at http://www.xmlhelpline.com/tools (including a section on how this relates to Schematron and other solutions). This is an initial 1.0 release. I would love to continue to improve it if people find it useful. Cheers, Paul Kiel ===================================================== W. Paul Kiel xmlHelpline.com Consulting <mailto:paul@xmlhelpline.com> paul@xmlhelpline.com work: 919-846-0224 cell: 919-449-8801 website: <http://www.xmlhelpline.com> http://www.xmlhelpline.com Your helpline for data integration solutions. =====================================================
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