XSD/Schema compilation checklist

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This page provides a checklist-like run through the most commonly used XSD options. For more details on each option as well as for the complete list of options refer to the XSD command line interface documentation (man pages).

Contents 1 Common Options 2 C++/Tree Mapping Options 3 C++/Parser Mapping Options

Common Options

The following options are available for all mappings:

• You can map any XML Schema namespace (including the no-namespace case and built-in XML Schema namespace) to a custom C++ namespace with the --namespace-map option, for example, --namespace-map http://www.example.com/xmlns/my=ExampleInc::My. To place the generated code for a schema without a target namespace into a C++ namespace, use the empty string as XML Schema namespace: --namespace-map =My. To map a set of namespaces at once the --namespace-regex option is available.

• To place the generated code into a specific directory, use the --output-dir options, for example, --output-dir src.

• If you have several schema files and some of them are not self-sufficient (that is, you get XML Schema errors when trying to compile them with XSD) or have cyclic dependecies that involve inheritance (that is, you get C++ errors when compiling the generated code with the message saying that the base type is undefined) then you will need to use the file-per-type compilation mode which is turned on with the --file-per-type option. For more information about the file-per-type mode see this blog post.

C++/Tree Mapping Options

The following options are specific to the C++/Tree mapping:

C++/Parser Mapping Options

The following options are specific to the C++/Parser mapping: