Thanks for the pointer.  However, xerces doesn't seem to expose this in the 
standard API docs. 

On Tuesday 06 Feb 2007 2:27 pm, Michael Kay wrote:
> There's a proposal from Xerces:
>
> http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-xmlschema-api-20040309/
>
> and there are similar capabilities in Saxon, in Castor, and no doubt
> elsewhere.
>
> There's clearly room for a standard API in this area but none exists today.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RameshNethi [mailto:ramesh.nethi@s...]
> > Sent: 06 February 2007 07:43
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> > Subject: [xml-dev] XML schema model - Java implementations
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a Java standard API for accessing XML schema model ?
> > That is, parse an XSD and query/modify schema information
> >
> > I came across the following in quick google search, but both
> > of these appear to be custom APIs.
> >
> > https://xsom.dev.java.net/
> > http://ws.apache.org/jaxme/xs/
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ramesh
> >
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