.NET & XML

Generating Types from a Schema

Once you have an XSD, whether generated by the XSD tool, produced from some other XML editor, or written by hand, the XSD tool can now generate source code to use an instance of the document it defines. Running the command xsd customer.xsd /classes generates the C# code shown in Example 8-6.

Example 8-6. Generated C# code for customer.xsd

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // <autogenerated> // This code was generated by a tool. // Runtime Version: 1.0.3705.209 // // Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if // the code is regenerated. // </autogenerated> //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // // This source code was auto-generated by xsd, Version=1.0.3705.209. // using System.Xml.Serialization; /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace="", IsNullable=false)] public class Customer { /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(DataType="token")] public string Name; /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Address")] public CustomerAddress[ ] Address; /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute(DataType="ID")] public string Id; } /// <remarks/> public class CustomerAddress { /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Street")] public string[ ] Street; /// <remarks/> public string City; /// <remarks/> public string State; /// <remarks/> ...