Re: Chicken or Egg, XML or XSD?

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From: Dino Chiesa [Microsoft] (dinoch_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/02/04


Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:51:30 -0400

Both!

Sometimes I use XML to model what I want, then I infer the XML schema from
the sample document (using xsd.exe). Then I might modify the XML Schema, or
modify the XML and re-gen the schema, iteratively.

But sometimes I start with by writing a schema, then go to XML.

"Ralph Krausse" <gordingin@consiliumsoft.com> wrote in message
news:49eb6317.0409020453.3bdf3470@posting.google.com...
> What comes first, XML or XSD? When you start building a project that
> will include XML, what would you start on first, building your XML data
> file or your XSD schema file?
>
> thanks
>
> Ralph Krausse
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