How to parse XSD's ??

Question

Hi,
starting from an XML Schema like this:
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:complexType name="C1">
     <xsd:sequence>
          <xsd:element name="e1" type="E1"/>
             <xsd:element name="e2" type="E2"/>                 
       </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="E1">
          <xsd:sequence>
                   <xsd:element name="s1" type="xsd:string"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="E2">
          <xsd:sequence>
                   <xsd:element name="s2" type="xsd:long"/>
                        <xsd:element name="s3" type="xsd:long"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="c1" type="C1"/>
</xsd:schema>I need to get the defined element types:
C1= { E1 e1; E2 e2; }
E1= { String s1; }
E2= { long s2; long s3; }
I found XML Schema API, but there's not an example for using it.
Is there anyone that can help me?
Thanks in advance. - gNoLo

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply.
I know JAXB and I use it in my application to generate java classes from a schema.
Now I need to retrieve at runtime information regarding those generated classes, so I have to parse the schema...
I'm searching for an existent schema parser before coding it from scratch using DOM or SAX, and I found the XML Schema API, but seems very hard to use.