Generate a test XML from XML Schema programmatically

Question

I have searched for a bit now, but i\'m not able to find a way to autogenerate data from a XML Schema programmatically. Lets say I have this XML schema:

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Answer 1

after doing some searching. I have found a project that have implemented a xml sample generator. I created a test solution and imported the classes. Then i deleted the XmlGen.cs file and created my own main method. The output will be based on the root element.

public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (var stream = new MemoryStream(File.ReadAllBytes("schema.xsd")))
            {
                var schema = XmlSchema.Read(XmlReader.Create(stream ), null);
                var gen = new XmlSampleGenerator(schema, new XmlQualifiedName("rootElement"));
                gen.WriteXml(XmlWriter.Create(@"c:\temp\autogen.xml"));
                Console.WriteLine("Autogenerated file is here : c:\temp\autogen.xml");
            }            
        }

Answer 2

You can write simple function for put 1 row into your data table and after that execute DataTable.WriteXml(string filePath)

Somethig like that:

xmlschema1 schema=new xmlschema1();
//put some test data in table
schema.Persons.AddPersonsRow(...some params);
//generate xml
schema.Persons.WriteXml(filePath);