W3C XML Schema

Schema-Forms - XML based eForms program released KK Aw 2002-06-11

Multicentric Technology is pleased to announce the release of Schema-Forms, an XML Schema based eForms program.

Schema-Forms generate an eForm based on the XML-Schema and the constraints specified in the schema are applied during data entry. The output can be transformed to HTML with an XSLT document.

A shareware version of the program is available from http://www.multicentric.com.

Free Windows tool supports XML Schema with embedded Schematron, Eddie Robertson, Oct 25 2001

Although primarily a Schematron tool, it also "handles DTDs, W3C XML Schemas, and Schematron schemas embedded in W3C XML Schemas", available from Topologi.

SchemaViewer 1.0, Frank Kilkelly 2002-11-08

SchemaViewer 1.0 is a Java application that virtually eliminates tedious browsing of XML Schema documents by representing them as a easily navigatable hierarchical tree. The application is a Swing-based GUI. It is freely available to download at: http://oocities.com/frakilk/software.html

IBM XML Schema Quality Checker. Achille Fokoue 2003-07-26

XML Schema Quality Checker (SQC) is a program which takes as input documents containing XML Schemas written in the W3C XML schema language and diagnoses improper uses of the schema language. Where the appropriate action to correct the schema is not obvious, the diagnostic message may include a suggestion about how to make the fix.

Version 2.2 now available (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmlsqc): "fixes from XML Schema 1.0 Specification Errata (as of June 1, 2003) implemented; use of Xerces 2.4; SQC can now run on JRE 1.4"

Stylus Studio 2008 now available Tony Lavinio 2008-12-12

Stylus Studio 2008 is now available for free trial download or online purchase. Here are some of highlights:

• WSDL Editor with embedded XML Schema editor
• XML Publisher for writing HTML+CSS or XSL:FO+PDF
• Multiple XML Schema validation engines included
• Editing support for gigabyte-sized files
• Bundled with DataDirect XML Converters 3.1 including support for HL7 (new), EANCOM, EDIFACT, IATA, and X12
• Bundled with DataDirect XQuery 3.1

You may download a free evaluation copy from http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html.

Overview of XML Schema support in Stylus studio: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_schema.html

Visual XML Schemas Siva Dirisala 2008-01-06

Even though many of the XML Schemas are meant for functional users so that they can design new systems or map existing systems to be standards compliant, their complexity makes it difficult for these users to study them. Even many software developers have difficulty understanding the XML Schemas due to their complexity. Visual Schema addresses this problem by presenting the XML Schemas as familiar and easily navigable html forms, typically found in enterprise business applications, that help the users easily understand the structure of an XML document.

Serveral open standards such as OAGIS and publicly available web services such as Amazon Web Services are available as Visual XML Schemas at http://www.visualschema.com/

XBinder XSD to C/C++ schema compiler Ed Day 13-Dec-2005

XBinder is an XML Schema to C/C++ Data Binding Tool. Given an XML schema or WSDL definition, it will produce C or C++ code that consists of type definitions and encode/decode functions. This provides a complete Application Programming Interface (API) for working with all of the message definitions contained within an XML schema specification.

XBinder supports all types included within XML schema including complex and simple content and substitution groups. Also supported is include and import to allow schemas to be modularized. Some large schemas that have been compiled cleanly include UBL, FIXML, FpML, and CSTA.

Further details including a free evaluation download can be found at http://www.obj-sys.com/products_xbinder.shtml

Announcement for the release of XBuilder Shagun Grover 2002-02-05

The much awaited product XBuilder 1.1 - the schema builder has been released. The Schema Builder is so designed that all the base information regarding the Schema entities is displayed in a hierarchical format. In addition, the corresponding XML code for the individual entity gets automatically generated without user intervention. The 30 use trial version of XBuilder [has disappeared as of 2007-01 -- any info to ht@w3.org, please].

Xerces-C++ 2.8.0 released Boris Kolpackov 2007-09-03

I am pleased to announce the availability of Apache Xerces-C++ 2.8.0. Xerces-C++ is an open-source validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. It provides DOM (level 1, 2, and certain parts of level 3), SAX, and SAX2 APIs and supports validation of XML documents against DTD and XML Schema.

This release is primarily focused on bug fixes, optimizations and build system improvements. For the complete list of changes in this version see the release information page: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/releases.html

The source code archives and precompiled libraries are available from the download page: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi

Xerces 2 Java Parser released lmartin@ca.ibm.com 2001-12-20

This release now contains, among other features, full XML Schema support (with complete constraint checking). XML Schema support was redesigned and reimplemented in Xerces 2.

For more information, pls see the Apache web site: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/index.html

Sysonyx's xmlArchitect, Bryce Nielsen, 2002-04-26

xmlArchitect is an intuitive XML Schema editor, displaying a realtime treeview mockup of what the Instance XML Document should look like while editing the XML Schema. Also, direct edits can happen inside this XML Tree and the XML Schema will update itself to reflect the new XML structure.

Product Information is at [http://www.sysonyx.com/Products/xmlDraft/index.asp]; Downloadable at [http://www.sysonyx.com/Products/xmlDraft/downloads.asp]

Apache XMLBeans v2.1.0 available Radu Preotiuc-Pietro 2005-12-09

The Apache XMLBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache XMLBeans v2.1.0. XMLBeans is a complete XML processing solution for Java, including XML Schema support, XML Schema to Java binding, lightweight fast Infoset access, XML Schema information access, DOM, SAX and StAX implementations, XPath/XQuery integration. Everything is available in a package that is easy to use and fully integrated, allowing the user to seamlessly switch between all APIs.

Binary downloads for Windows and Unix are available from http://xmlbeans.apache.org/sourceAndBinaries/

[For those familiar with XMLBeans V1, see http://xmlbeans.apache.org/news for a list of changes and additions in XMLBeans V2]

Sun's XML Datatypes Library Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI May 04 2001

XML Datatypes Library is a Java implementation of W3C XML Schema Part 2. It can be used from any Java code to

• validate strings with datatypes
• convert strings into Java objects

XMLEspresso 4.0 Announcement Ajay Votra 2003-07-08

XMLEspresso 4.0 is a full featured, J2SE 1.4.x based XML Editor available for evaluation (unlimited period) and purchase at: http://www.nubean.com/.

XMLEspresso 4.0 supports creation of W3C XML Schemas and XML documents based on W3C XML Schemas.

XMLFox Advanced XML/XSD editor Russ Sabitov 2005-03-14

XMLFox Advance is an intuitive xml and xml schema (XSD) editor, allows the xml developer to create schemas and show a visual representation of what the xml document will look like for that schema. XMLFox Advance supports Validation an XML against an XSD schema.

You can find more info about the tool at the following website: http://www.XMLFox.com/

XML Infoset Browser for Java, Ed Merks, 2002-09-18

We are very pleased to announce the availability of org.eclipse.xsd, the XML Schema Infoset Model for Java, at Eclipse:http://www.eclipse.org/xsd/.

org.eclipse.xsd is a Java reference library that implements the XML Schema Infoset Model as described in the W3C XML Schema specifications. We believe that it will be useful for any code that examines, creates, or modifies XML Schemas (standalone or as part of other artifacts, such as XForms or WSDL documents). The library provides an API for manipulating the components of an XML Schema, as well as an API for manipulating the DOM-accessible representation of XML Schema as a series of XML documents, and for keeping these representations in agreement as schemas are modified.

XML Nanny, Todd Ditchendorf, 2005-12-16

I've developed a free (as in beer) Cocoa XML Schema-related developer tool for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger called XML Nanny: http://xmlnanny.com.

XML Nanny is a graphical tool for checking XML documents for well- formedness or validity against a DTD or W3C XML Schema. XML Nanny can validate documents either locally or over the network.

new XMLSchema editor and binding tool Aidan Russell 2005-07-21

The tool provides a powerful XMLSchema editor, with binding classes generation in C++, Java and RDBs. Editing og XML and XSLT is also supported.

The product URL is www.xmlobjective.com A free version is also provided supporting basic XMLSchema editing and validation.

WmHelp XmlPad 3Semyon A. Chertkov 2006-09-22

I'm glad to announce availability a new freeware version of WmHelp XMLPad. It's now based on the Expat parsing engine and has full support for XML Schemas.

XML Schema editor with color syntax highlighting, line numbers, element range navigation, and context-dependent source assistant wizard. Available absolutely free (freeware) without any limitations. It does not contain any AdWare or SpyWare. http://www.wmhelp.com/download.htm

Xml Schema Object Model (in the System.Xml.Schema namespace), Microsoft 2002-06-03

System.Xml.Schema namespace contains the XML classes that provide standards-based support for XML Schemas definition language (XSD) schemas. This namespace is part of the .Net Framework SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true and implements the XML Schema Part 1: Structures <http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/> and the XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes <http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/> specifications.

Online W3C XML Schema Validator, Microsoft, 2002-10-11

An online HTML form-based interface for validating schemas (XSD & XDR) and instance documents using the System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader in the .NET framework [appears to have been withdrawn as of 2006-12]

XML ValidatorBuddy is commercial software for the Microsoft Windows platform for editing and validating large XML and JSON documents.

This Perl module allows you to validate XML documents against a W3C XML Schema. This module does not implement the full W3C XML Schema recommendation, but a useful subset. See the SCHEMA SUPPORT section in the module documention.

You can install XML::Validator::Schema from CPAN, or download it from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89764

xnsdoc 1.2 - XML Schema documentation generator buldocs 2006-09-19

xnsdoc 1.2 is now available, a professional tool to generate documentation of W3C XML-Schema in a JavaDoc-like visualization.

xnsdoc supports all common schema design practices like chameleon, russian doll, salami slice, venetian blind schemas or circular schema references.

xnsdoc can be used from the command line, as an Apache Ant Task, as an Apache Maven Plugin, as an eclipse plugin or integrated as a custom tool in many XML development tools.

Release 1.2 fixes all known bugs and comes with improved integration into eclipse, Apache Maven and Apache Ant.

You can download a free trial version at http://www.buldocs.com/xnsdoc/download/

XS3p is a schema documentation generator developed by Zar Zar Tun at DSTC. Basically, it is an XSLT stylesheet that will generate an XHTML document from an XSD schema. Some of its cool features are:

• It provides links that allow the user to jump to the documentation of schema components that are referenced.
• It provides a view of schema components' constraints as a sample XML instance.
• For global type definitions, it shows the super- and sub- types of the type definition.
• For global element declarations, it shows the substitution groups that the element declaration heads or belongs to.
• It can sort schema components by type and name.
• It has a glossary section which explains some XML Schema terminology.

DSTC no longer exists, and the original homepage for this tool is gone. Both oXygen and Stylus Studio appear to use it, and search engines can locate copies of the stylesheet and, in some cases, the license without which it cannot legally be used.

XmlPlus xsd2cpp is an open-source tool which provides XML data binding for C++ through XML Schema. The xsd2cpp tool is a C++ code generator. The xsd2cpp tool when invoked on an input XML Schema, generates C++ classes(headers) mapped to the input XML Schema components. Alongside, wherever needed, it generates implementation files(.cpp) for the generated C++ classes. Also, a sample application(main.cpp) is generated to demonstrate how an application could consume the generated C++ source files.

XSDBench XML Schema Benchmark 1.0.0 released Boris Kolpackov 2006-10-18

XSDBench is an open-source W3C XML Schema benchmark that compares the performance of validating XML parsers. It measures validation throughput, statically-linked test executable size, and, where possible, peak heap and stack memory usage during parsing. The following parsers are supported in the latest release:

• Apache Xerces-C++
• CodeSynthesis XSD
• Gnome Libxml2
• Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML)
• Oracle XDK

More information on the benchmark architecture, results, as well as the benchmark source code are available from http://www.codesynthesis.com/projects/xsdbench

XSD from examples, Microsoft, 2002-12-14

We would like to announce the availabitlity of Microsoft XSD Inference Beta 1 tool. The Microsoft XSD Inference utility is used to create an XML Schema definition language (XSD) schema from an XML instance document. When provided with wellformed XML file, the utility generates an XSD that can be used to validate that XML file. You can also refine the XSD generated by providing the tool more well-formed XML files. You can get the binaries and documentation from http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/xmltools/

xframe - xsddoc 0.8-beta released, Kurt Riede, 2005-05-22.

xsddoc is an Open Source documentation tool for W3C XML Schema based on XSLT. With xsddoc you can generate documentation of your XML Schema in a JavaDoc like visualisation. xsddoc can be used from the command line, as an Apache Ant Task or as an Apache Maven Plugin or integrated as a custom tool in StylusStudio or XMLWriter\ .

You can download xsddoc http://xframe.sourceforge.net/xsddoc/index.html

XML Schema Documentation software, Thomas Chen, 2003-10-15

XSDdoc is an XML Schema documentation software that transforms plain XML files into cross-referenced, hyperlinked HTML documents and provides a detailed functional report for each schema component. XSDdoc makes it effortless to navigate through a large collection of XML vocabulary.

For a detailed product guide of XSDdoc 2.0, please visit our web site at http://www.bluetetra.com/.

XSD regex-> Java 1.4 regex, James Clark 2002-04-30

I've written some Java code that translates from the syntax of XSD regexes to the syntax of JDK 1.4 java.util.regex regexes. The source, binaries and documentation can be downloaded from: [http://www.thaiopensource.com/download/xsdregex-20020430.zip]

I am releasing it under a very liberal license (the BSD license), which makes it free even for commercial use.

xsd - a W3C XML Schema to C++ translator Boris Kolpackov 2005-10-08

xsd is a cross-platform, open source W3C XML Schema to C++ translator. It supports two C++ mappings: in-memory C++/Tree and event-driven C++/Parser.

The C++/Tree mapping consists of data types that represent the given vocabulary, a set of parsing functions that convert XML instance documents to a tree-like in-memory data structure, and a set of serialization functions that convert the in-memory representation back to XML.

The C++/Parser mapping provides parser templates for data types defined in XML Schema. Using these parser templates you can build your own in-memory representations or perform immediate processing of XML instance documents.

Details and download from http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd/

Hussein Shafie 2002-01-09

The xsdvalid distribution contains the XML Schema validation engine that will be integrated into the future XMLmind XML Editor product ( http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ ).

This engine has been made available to schema and DTD authors in the form of 3 command-line tools:

• xsdvalid: Checks an XML schema for validity. Checks an XML document for validity against an XML schema.
• dtdvalid: Checks a DTD for validity. Checks an XML document for validity against a DTD.
• dtdtoxsd: Converts a DTD to an XML schema.

The xsdvalid distribution can be downloaded from [http://www.xmlmind.com/xvalid.html] .

XSU, an Open Source upgrade transform from the 20001024 to the 20010330 version; free web-form access, from University of Edinburgh/W3C (beta);

XSV, an Open Source XML Schema Validator, with web-form access from University of Edinburgh/W3C (beta) (Status page)

Free download of self-installing version of XSV for WIN32.