I'm working on database models defined in XML, aka data model schema, and I've decided to use XML schema to specify how they should be modeled.
A little background: I'm basing the model off of how MDB2 from PHP's PEAR generates an XML representation of a data model. I've made some minor modifications, and want to document them.
In learning about XML schema (xsd), I found trang. Its a Java utility which can infer an XML schema from an XML document. Cool! It can even generate a DTD!
Here's how I used it:
trang -I xml -O xsd data_model.xml data_model.xsd
The result can be found at github.com:
SIDE NOTE: Its unfortunate that the word schema is causing a clash here. Its a useful word in both contexts but they really refer to different concepts.