Generating a tree diagram from an XSD file

Question

I would like to generate a tree diagram out of an XML schema definition. Liquid XML Studio has a visual XSD tree editor, and lets me save my tree as a .png file, which fulfills some of my needs. But I am wondering if there is a tool out there that lets users convert XSD files to web pages, where the diagram can be clicked, expanded, and collapsed, and possibly even support URL fragments, so that I could link to a particular complexType, and clicking on the link would jump to that part of the diagram.

Is there a tool out there that does any of these things?

Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/q/2486758/2799037 for a similar question without the online requirement. — usr1234567, Sep 19 '17 at 13:14

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

The open source command line java application xsdvi creates an interactive diagram in SVG format from an XML Schema Definition. The generated SVG file can be displayed by a modern web browser where the user can expand and collapse the tree by mouse clicking.

Here is an example of a generated diagram

http://xsdvi.sourceforge.net/ipo.svg

The software can be downloaded from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsdvi/

See also this stackoverflow answer

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 08 '17 at 14:11

1

Liquid XML Studio can also generate HTML Docs. Have a look at the schema library for some sample output

alt text

edited Feb 08 '17 at 14:11

Community

1
1

answered May 01 '09 at 16:11

Colin

586
3
6

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 10 '15 at 07:46

0

Liquid XML has a XSD dependancy viewer. I find it realy useful for finding unresolved includes as they are marked in red. enter image description here

answered Feb 10 '15 at 07:46

Sprotty

5,676
3
33
52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '09 at 08:40

Oxygen XML does most if not all of what you need. From the website blurb:

It is possible to generate HTML documentation pages from XML Schema files. The documentation includes images representing the models for the elements, attributes, types, a.s.o. The documentation is obtained with just a couple of clicks even for schemas that include or import other schemas. For large schemas a generate chunks option is available that will output each global schema component description (element, attribute, type, etc.) on a separate page.

An example HTML documentation page is given, the link to which is broken. Try Google's cached copy:

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:g_RCqsDpZ2YJ:www.oxygenxml.com/personal.html+http://www.oxygenxml.com/personal.html

Generating a tree diagram from an XSD file

4 Answers4