Generating Schemas with XML Authority

Earlier in the chapter, you might have been thinking that converting a DTD to an XML Schema document could be automated. Thanks to a schema development tool called XML Authority, converting DTDs to XML Schema documents can be done automatically. XML Authority is a schema development tool by Extensibility that offers an interesting approach to schema development in general, and XML Schema development in particular.

XML Authority abstracts the concept of the schema by establishing a user interface for creating schemas in a very general sense. The native schema format used by XML Authority is DTD, but there are export facilities for exporting schemas as XML Schema documents, among others. Seamlessly moving ...

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