Creating class diagram from xsd file???

[hilz]

Hi all,
I asked this question on the "Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools" forum, but I just noticed it has low traffic  and might take forever for my question to be answered.
I hope you don't mind me asking again in this group!

So here it is:


is there a way to automatically create class diagrams from an XML schema file (.xsd) ? is that possible?
I am evaluating EA Professional edition.

thanks for any answers in advance.
hilz

[Molto Mike]

Hi Hilz,

this is not yet possible with EA. Search this forum for XSD to get some more input.

Mike

[gregjs]

  I asked a similar Q a few months ago ... and got a very helpful reply form a user 'Arthur':

We are using a (free!) Microsoft tool called xsdObjectGenerator to generate C# code that is in turn reversed into EA. Works OK mostly.

I've had a good deal of success with this approach to import a very large financial xsd (FpML) into EA.

FpML is a very complex schema with a large number of includes ... had to break up pieces to do some imports.

Never-the-less this is a very useful work around.

EA should really make xml schema import top priority on the feature update list.

... Greg