In Java, how do I parse an xml schema (xsd) to learn what's valid at a given element?

Question

I\'d like to be able to read in an XML schema (i.e. xsd) and from that know what are valid attributes, child elements, values as I walk through it.

For example, let\'s

Answer 1

It's agood bit of work depending on how compex your xsd is but basically.

if you had

And you wanted to find out where were the alowable children of header you'd (taking account of namespaces) Xpath would have you look for '/element[name="Document"]/element[name="Header"]'

After that it depends on how much you want to do. You might find it easier to write or find something that loads an xsd into a DOM type structure. Course you are going to possibly find all sorts of things under that elment in xsd, choice, sequence, any, attributes, complexType, SimpleContent, annotation.

Loads of time consuming fun.