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Parsing XSD Schema with SOM

By CodingBruce , 13 Oct 2008
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Pull metadata from a schema or generate XML mappers Type Licence Article CPOL 13 Oct 2008 24,786 749 24 times

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Introduction
This article shows how to use a Schema Object Model(SOM) navigator as an arbitrary schema. This is useful when you have a schema and want to generate your own mapping or want to build a custom XML generator or XSD based code generator.

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First read schema and "compile", this will validate the schema.
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p r i v a t es t a t i cX m l S c h e m a R e a d A n d C o m p i l e S c h e m a ( s t r i n gf i l e N a m e ) { X m l T e x t R e a d e rt r=n e wX m l T e x t R e a d e r ( f i l e N a m e , n e wN a m e T a b l e ( ) ) ; / /T h eR e a dm e t h o dw i l lt h r o we r r o r se n c o u n t e r e d / /o np a r s i n gt h es c h e m a X m l S c h e m as c h e m a=X m l S c h e m a . R e a d ( t r , n e wV a l i d a t i o n E v e n t H a n d l e r ( V a l i d a t i o n C a l l b a c k O n e ) ) ; t r . C l o s e ( ) ; X m l S c h e m a S e tx s e t=n e wX m l S c h e m a S e t ( ) ; x s e t . A d d ( s c h e m a ) ; x s e t . V a l i d a t i o n E v e n t H a n d l e r+ =n e w V a l i d a t i o n E v e n t H a n d l e r ( V a l i d a t i o n C a l l b a c k O n e ) ;

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V a l i d a t i o n E v e n t H a n d l e r ( V a l i d a t i o n C a l l b a c k O n e ) ; / /T h eC o m p i l em e t h o dw i l lt h r o we r r o r s / /e n c o u n t e r e do nc o m p i l i n gt h es c h e m a x s e t . C o m p i l e ( ) ; } r e t u r ns c h e m a ;

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p r i v a t es t a t i cv o i dV a l i d a t i o n C a l l b a c k O n e ( o b j e c ts e n d e r ,V a l i d a t i o n E v e n t A r g sa r g s ) { C o n s o l e . W r i t e L i n e ( " E x c e p t i o nS e v e r i t y :"+a r g s . S e v e r i t y ) ; C o n s o l e . W r i t e L i n e ( a r g s . M e s s a g e ) ; }

Start traversing at the highest level...

p r i v a t es t a t i cv o i dT r a v e r s e S O M ( s t r i n gx s f F i l e n a m e ) { X m l S c h e m ac u s t S c h e m a=R e a d A n d C o m p i l e S c h e m a ( x s f F i l e n a m e ) ; f o r e a c h( X m l S c h e m a E l e m e n te l e mi n { } } P r o c e s s E l e m e n t ( e l e m ) ; c u s t S c h e m a . E l e m e n t s . V a l u e s )

XML Schema Reader Writer Plugin for VS 2005/2008 Resources Files (.resx vs .resources) Chapter Excerpt - LINQ Quickly XML for Beginners LINQ to XSD Generate Sample XML from XSD Extract an XML Schema from a .NET 2.0 ConfigurationSection subclass for Configuration Validation & Intellisense in Visual Studio An XSD to .NET language code class generator that adds real punch to Microsoft's XSD Tool UDDI Explorer: Tool for searching web services How to Troubleshoot Schemas in BizTalk Server 2006 Validating SOAP Message against WSDL A cool utility to convert XML schemas to classes Generating Word Reports / Documents No-namespace/Chameleon Include Support for .NET 1.1 ExpandingTable with DesignTime support

Only an element can contain attributes... so it's handled in a little special way:
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p r i v a t es t a t i cv o i dP r o c e s s E l e m e n t ( X m l S c h e m a E l e m e n te l e m ) { C o n s o l e . W r i t e L i n e ( " E l e m e n t :{ 0 } " ,e l e m . N a m e ) ; i f( e l e m . E l e m e n t S c h e m a T y p ei sX m l S c h e m a C o m p l e x T y p e ) { X m l S c h e m a C o m p l e x T y p ec t= e l e m . E l e m e n t S c h e m a T y p ea sX m l S c h e m a C o m p l e x T y p e ; f o r e a c h( D i c t i o n a r y E n t r yo b ji nc t . A t t r i b u t e U s e s ) C o n s o l e . W r i t e L i n e ( " A t t r i b u t e :{ 0 } " , ( o b j . V a l u ea sX m l S c h e m a A t t r i b u t e ) . N a m e ) ; } P r o c e s s S c h e m a O b j e c t ( c t . C o n t e n t T y p e P a r t i c l e ) ;

Process the C h o i c e& S e q u e n c e elements generically (this handles the type casting required):
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p r i v a t es t a t i cv o i dP r o c e s s S e q u e n c e ( X m l S c h e m a S e q u e n c es e q u e n c e ) { C o n s o l e . W r i t e L i n e ( " S e q u e n c e " ) ; P r o c e s s I t e m C o l l e c t i o n ( s e q u e n c e . I t e m s ) ; } p r i v a t es t a t i cv o i dP r o c e s s C h o i c e ( X m l S c h e m a C h o i c ec h o i c e ) { C o n s o l e . W r i t e L i n e ( " C h o i c e " ) ; P r o c e s s I t e m C o l l e c t i o n ( c h o i c e . I t e m s ) ; }

The S c h e m a objects are processed generically, but uniformly:

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p r i v a t es t a t i cv o i dP r o c e s s I t e m C o l l e c t i o n ( X m l S c h e m a O b j e c t C o l l e c t i o no b j s ) { f o r e a c h( X m l S c h e m a O b j e c to b ji no b j s ) P r o c e s s S c h e m a O b j e c t ( o b j ) ; } p r i v a t es t a t i cv o i dP r o c e s s S c h e m a O b j e c t ( X m l S c h e m a O b j e c to b j ) { i f( o b ji sX m l S c h e m a E l e m e n t ) P r o c e s s E l e m e n t ( o b ja sX m l S c h e m a E l e m e n t ) ; i f( o b ji sX m l S c h e m a C h o i c e ) P r o c e s s C h o i c e ( o b ja sX m l S c h e m a C h o i c e ) ; i f( o b ji sX m l S c h e m a S e q u e n c e ) P r o c e s s S e q u e n c e ( o b ja sX m l S c h e m a S e q u e n c e ) ; }

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Points of Interest
There's a lot of type checking and casting. That's inherent in the data model used in the SOM. It's not a strongly typed data structure. So you have to check, cast, then use. It would be an interesting exercise to generate a strongly typed XSD model, but I'll leave that for another article.

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2008-10-10: Article created

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