xml tools -> Design tools with XSD (&UML) output

[Tony Linde]

Together does have this - TCC is no longer free to academics since being
taken over by Borland but you can buy a site license or (even better for
AstroGrid) project license for about £1K/year:
  http://www.borland.com/together/controlcenter/index.html

I did not find it easy to understand which bit of uml I should use for
different aspects of the xml schema so gave up and stuck with XMLSpy
(windows only):
  http://www.xmlspy.com/

Another one I used for a while and found much better than TCC - more
intuitive - is, Tibco TurboXML, available as a download (linux & windows
versions, 30 day trial, moderate single user price, don’t know about
academic pricing) at:
  http://www.tibco.com/solutions/products/extensibility/turbo_xml.jsp
but I'd not begun using the advanced features that I had to force-feed
myself to keep up with Ray :))

Overall, best place to look for tools is at:
  http://www.xmlsoftware.com/
under the various 'editors' sections.

Overall I've found XMLSpy the easiest to work with - relatively easy to
switch between the text and diagram modes. Not cheap and windows only,
though.

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-interop at eso.org [mailto:owner-interop at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of Wil O'Mullane
> Sent: 02 December 2003 15:06
> To: DIDELON Pierre
> Cc: interop at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: xml tools -> Design tools with XSD (&UML) output
> 
> 
> I have not played with UML to xsd but I hear Rational Rose
> hase some facility - if only through XSI. 
> I would be surprised if Together did not also have somehting.
> 
> We use xsd.exe from microsoft which will take any set of 
> classes and produce xsd for them. Serialisation to from XML 
> is then certain to work. 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:43:45AM +0100, DIDELON Pierre wrote:
> > Hi,
> > some tools to play with XML in Java have been suggested on the list 
> > sometime ago. On an other side and to feed the previous 
> tools with XML 
> > Schema (xsd files) does anybody have a suggestion for a design tool 
> > generating XSD files? and possibly UML diag as weel! Will 
> did you have 
> > any god idea like the Castor and JAXB previous ones?
> > 
> > Thanks to all for any response.
> > 
> > --
> > Pierre
> > 
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