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As an analyst, I am always keen for other's point of view in how they
go about doing things. It's my way of learning.

So here's a situation, which i would appreciate your thoughts on:

You, as an XML developer, are given an XSD by a third party
organisation. You've got to Import and Export data from your
'database' using MSXML, conforming to this schema.

At the moment, *my* way of doing this would be to get XMLSpy to
generate a sample xml doc, create an XSLT which maps the xml output
against fields in my db, and use ADO to transform the database data
into a transformed xml doc. And THEN worry about validation.

What methods, or approaches would you use to go from XSD to XML?

With regards,

SiJP wrote:
> As an analyst, I am always keen for other's point of view in how they
> go about doing things. It's my way of learning.
>
> So here's a situation, which i would appreciate your thoughts on:
>
> You, as an XML developer, are given an XSD by a third party
> organisation. You've got to Import and Export data from your
> 'database' using MSXML, conforming to this schema.
>
> At the moment, *my* way of doing this would be to get XMLSpy to
> generate a sample xml doc, create an XSLT which maps the xml output
> against fields in my db, and use ADO to transform the database data
> into a transformed xml doc. And THEN worry about validation.
>
> What methods, or approaches would you use to go from XSD to XML?
>
> With regards,
>

Just use an editor that supports xsd, then when i am typing that
editor will give hints wich elements i can choose from.
The editor gets that info from the xsd file.