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How Do I...Infer an XML Schema?

This sample illustrates how to infer an XML schema from a given XML document by using the XmlSchemaInference class. An XmlSchemaInference object is used to infer an XML schema from a particular XML document, and then adds the inferred schema to an XmlSchemaSet object. The inferred schema is further refined by using schemas inferred from additional XML documents.

C# XmlSchemaInference.exe

[This sample can be found at M:\web\users\Sites\AspnetQuickStart\v2.0\QuickStart\howto\samples\Xml\XmlSchemaInference\
To build this sample, open the SDK command prompt and navigate to the above path. Build the sample using the build tool msbuild passing the solution file as the first parameter: msbuild mySample.sln. The compiled executable will be found in the sub directory \bin directory.]

The following code creates the XmlSchemaInference and XmlSchemaSet objects.

		
XmlSchemaInference infer = new XmlSchemaInference();
XmlSchemaSet sc = new XmlSchemaSet();

The following code infers an XML schema from an XML document.

		
sc = infer.InferSchema(new XmlTextReader("sample.xml"));