Parse XML Schema Document

[Jeff Storey]

Hi, is there a way to parse an XSD so I can iterate over the various elements in it? It may be a complex XSD that imports elements from other XSDs as well, and I'd like to be able to iterate over the child elements of the imported elements. Thanks!

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

XSD is nothing but XML.You can do parsing the very same way we do for XML using XML parsers.

[Jeff Storey]

Agreed, but what happens when my xsd document imports elements from another document? I want to be able to access the child elements of the imported element, not just the name of the imported element.

[William Brogden]

What happened when you tried it?

Bill

[Jeff Storey]

It treats it just like a regular XML document as I expected. So, if I had the following snippet:

   <xs:string name="name"/>
   <xs:complextype ref="c:address"/>

where c:address is the address type imported from another schema. I'd like to be able to get at the fields within address (say, line1, line2, city, state, zip). This seems like it could be some pretty tedious code to write, so I'm wondering if any libraries already do it, but I couldn't find any.