Parsing XSD using Xerces

[Moha Shaf]

I need to parse a generic XSD and create sample XMLs conforming to the XSD. I am using Xerces for Java.

Does Xerces provide support for parsing XSD or do i have to parse it as a regular XML ? If theres support in Xerces, how do i do it?
Also could someone point to way/technique by which i can create all possible XMLs conforming to an XSD.

Thanks.

[Paul Clapham]

A schema is an XML document, so yes, Xerces does support parsing one as XML. I don't know what else you would want from Xerces anyway.

And if you think about it, almost any non-trivial schema describes an infinite number of possible XML documents, so there is no way to generate all of them.

[Moha Shaf]

I understand that an XSD can be parsed as a normal XML but I do not wish to do that. I believe that there is an object representation of the XSD which the Xerces uses to validate an XML. Is there a way to get handle to that object and get information of the schema in a logical way using its methods or some other way.
I found a sample for the C++ version of xerces but not able to find the source of this sample --> http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/scmprint-3.html
Also I do not wish to generate all possible XMLs conforming to schema, I only want to generate the XMLs with boundary values for all the constraints in the schema.

Any help/ pointer would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Moha Shaf]

Could someone tell if there is any equivalent API in Xerces Java to Traverse through the XSD and access different segments of the XSD in a logical way.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks