"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> randy wrote:
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>> I am fairly new to XML schemas and why to use them. I am integrating
>> with another application via xml. My questions are schemas only good to
>> validate the XML documents or can I use the schema to help me parse the
>> xml document?
>
> Well you can generally parse an XML document without validating or having
> a schema.
>
> On the other hand schemas are by now often used to map XML to classes in a
> framework (e.g. .NET framework) or programming language (e.g. Java) to
> enable your code do directly access a parsed XML document as an instance
> of a class where you have typed members.
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> And web services using SOAP for instance might do there type marshalling
> based on XSD schema description.
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> --
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> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

"randy" <randy@d.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to XML schemas and why to use them. I am integrating with
> another application via xml. My questions are schemas only good to
> validate the XML documents or can I use the schema to help me parse the
> xml document?

randy wrote:

> I am fairly new to XML schemas and why to use them. I am integrating with
> another application via xml. My questions are schemas only good to validate
> the XML documents or can I use the schema to help me parse the xml document?

randy wrote:

> Is there a good example how to use a schema to map to
> class in .Net?