XML Schema Definition (XSD) is useful when working with XML schemas that follow the XSD language. With XSD, you can perform the following transformations:
XDR to XSD
XML to XSD
Classes to XSD
XSD to Classes
XSD to DataSet
To convert an XDR-formatted file to XSD, you would use the following syntax:
xsd [options] file.xdr
Note that the file extension .xdr
dictates the
conversion from XDR to XSD.
To convert an XML-formatted file to XSD, you would use the following syntax:
xsd [options] file.xml
Note that the file extension .xml
dictates the
conversion from XML to XSD.
You
can convert classes to XSD by specifying the
runtime assembly file (.exe
or
.dll
extension) as the filename to the utility.
You can also specify a particular type within the assembly you want
to convert to XSD using the /type
flag. The
typename
can be a wildcard match. If you omit the
/type
flag, all types in the assembly will be
converted. The syntax follows:
Xsd [/TYPE:typename] assemblyFile
or:
Xsd [/T:typename] assemblyFile
To convert XSD back to classes, use the /classes
or /c
flag. You can specify a particular element
in the XSD schema to be converted to a class. You can also specify
the language for the class source file. The general syntax follows:
xsd /CLASSES /ELEMENT:element /NAMESPACE:namespace /LANGUAGE:language /URI:uri file.xsd
or:
xsd /C E:element /N:namespace /L:language /U:uri file.xsd
Note that namespace
, language
,
and uri
can be specified only once.
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