My first thought would be to try and tackle this with XSLT. As XSD is XML, and you're trying to convert XSD/XML to another form (source code, which is just plain text), this sounds like a job for a templating system that can process XML as input – even though I've never used XSLT to convert XML to plain text.

I feel like taking a stab at it, but just a dry spec with no examples is much too dry for me. So I concur with nferraz: can you offer us a real world XSD file and the Perl module you created from it by hand? That'll give me something to aim for.

If it works, it can still be used as a working example to rework it into a Perl script, or module.

In reply to Re: Automatically creating data validation module from XSD by bart
in thread Automatically creating data validation module from XSD by brian_d_foy

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