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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