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As we're talking XML and XSD, does anyone have a good open tool for diagramming XML schemas into something browseable and graphical? Looking to automatically bu
by afandian 6y ago
As we're talking XML and XSD, does anyone have a good open tool for diagramming XML schemas into something browseable and graphical? Looking to automatically build docs from XSD in a CI task rather than having to do it manually.
oXygen gives nice output, but it's not open and doesn't work well in a CI pipeline.
- austincheney 6y agoCSS. You can apply CSS directly to a schema instance in order to allow beautiful display in a browser. If you are feeling really wild you can add a tiny sprinkle of JavaScript at the tail end of the file for complete interaction via DOM walking. Here is an example of a schema instance with CSS. Keep in mind this is literally the XSD file: http://mailmarkup.org/mail-documentation.xsd http://mailmarkup.org/mail-documentation.xsd
- afandian 6y agoThis is incredibly cool. Plenty of food for thought. I think people would miss seeing UML type diagrams, especially for a large intricate schema. This is what we've currently got: http://data.crossref.org/reports/help/schema_doc/4.3.7/4.3.7.html http://data.crossref.org/reports/help/schema_doc/4.3.7/4.3.7...