XML blooming

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Concerning #2, Microsoft has released a tool for XSD Inference. It
can't generate the exact XSD file, but it can guess what it was...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/0/f/80fca9f1-292e-4b50-b512-ccf004d4b58e/xsdinference.exe

Paddy wrote:
> (That is bloom as in http://www.wmhelp.com/xmlpad2.htm ;-)
>
> Suddenly, OK, over a number of months, our design environment at work
> has sprouted a wealth of XML configuration files, DTD's etc. The time
> has come when I need to loose my XML cherry.
> So , I guess I need to learn Elementtree.
>
> In supporting our design environment I think I will need
>  1) An editor that can read in a DTD or XML Schema Definition, (XSD),
> as well as an XML file, and help me to write conforming XML.
>  2) A tool to extract an XSD from XML examples.
>
> Hmm, I'm also thinking about a Python project along the lines of
> something that could translate between the world of the Traits package
> (http://code.enthought.com/traits/), and XSD/DTD/XML. Has anyone done
> this before? 
> 
> Thanks in advance, Paddy.