[XML-SIG] xsd and python

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Sep 14 10:35:33 CEST 2007


On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:41:05PM +0200,
 Steen Manniche <steen at manniche.net> wrote 
 a message of 50 lines which said:

> Inferring an xml instance from an xml schema is not trivial, since
> an xml schema can contain infinite paths.

But this is possible. It is not different from generating a program
according to a grammar (BNF grammars, like XML schemas, can contain
infinite paths) and some programs do it:

http://www.quut.com/abnfgen/
http://www.bortzmeyer.org/eusthatius-test-grammars.html

So, not trivial but a nice and useful project. Who volunteers? :-)


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