Hi, Stefan Behnel wrote:

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I need to write an application to convert XML schema (.xsd) to a data structure then using this data structure and the data from some other files, generate an XML file.

I have seen generateDS and pyfo library that can be combined to write this application but my problem is that i somehow do not like DOM and would like to write this in ElementTree. I wonder if anyone can point me how to write this quickly in ElementTree or someone has already done this effort. In case you can do without the schema, lxml.objectify might be worth a look:

http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/objectify.html

Thanks Stefan,

But my primary requirement is converting XML Schema.

Sure, no problem. But may I ask what the reasoning behind this requirement is? I mean, code generation isn't really a value by itself.

Just in case you're interested (and since similar topics have come up a couple of times on lxml's mailing list), I added a doc section on parse-time schema validation in lxml 2.0 here: http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/doc/objectify.txt Look out for section 2, "Asserting a Schema". It's not yet included in the online docs at http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/objectify.html but it will appear there by the end of the week. Stefan