XML/XSD graphical representation of the tree

问题

I have constructed a XML file and generated a XSD file from it. The XML is almost empty as there are elements but without value :

<parent>
   <child1/>
   <child2/>
</parent>

What I'm looking for is a soft that could convert my XML (or its associated schema) into a graphical representation as a tree :

                parent
                   |
                   |
     _______________________________
     |                             |
     |                             |
   child1                        child2

with cute boxes, colors and so on.

Any suggestion ? Thanks

回答1:

In general, it would be helpful to understand why you would be doing it for; for example, to author/analyse/validate the source (XML or XSD) and/or for documentation purposes? Then how do you plan on doing it? Interactive? Do you need automation to extract the visualizations?

A number of open source and free editions of commercial products provide some sort of XML and XSD visualization: Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio (development tools), HelpStudio (help authoring), Oxygen, XmlSpy (specialized editors), etc.

QTAssistant (I am associated with it) also provides graphical representations of XML and XSD files; below are some examples.

XML visualized as a tree:

The associated (inferred) XSD:

The tools comes with an automation API that would allow one to constantly update these diagrams as the underlying XML/XSD changes.

回答2:

XSDDiagram, a small .NET 2.0 open source application can generate those diagrams.

http://regis.cosnier.free.fr/?page=XSDDiagram

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15955542/xml-xsd-graphical-representation-of-the-tree