Why does XSD.EXE Create Two .XSD Files, and How to Use Them?

Question

I am using the following command to generate related xsd file from my input XML file -- response.xml, my confusion is (1) why there are two xsd file output (response.xsd and

Answer 1

Yes, remove the namespaces from XML file and generate it, you will get single XSD file

Answer 2

The reason why two files are getting generated is because your XML contains two XML namespaces; each generated XSD corresponds to a namespace. The one for the soap envelope namespace imports the mycorp namespace (which you can see from the xs:import element).

Answer 3

IIRC, you use both, one will probably reference the other.

Answer 4

George,

To generate classes from these files, you must list both on the command line:

D:\>xsd response.xsd response_app1.xsd /classes 

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It has already been correctly said that the two .xsd files are because there were two XML namespaces in your original XML file. BTW, I'm guessing a little here because you did not post the XML file.