XML newbie

[Tim Hallbauer]

I am an XML newbie. I have to build an interface to a video EEG system and have absolutely no idea where to start to build the XML. I purchased an XML book but am stumped. Is there anyone out there that can point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Tim

Topic

[Mike Grieger]

Is XML source and/or destination?  (ie. – HL7 to XML, XML to HL7, XML to XML)   A good place to start is to get the XML schema from your vendor, and getting that compiled into Cloverleaf.

[Tim Hallbauer]

HL7 to XML to the vendor, then XML to HL7 back. I have a schema in a Word doc. Do I just create that in a file and then compile it?

[Anonymous]

Tim,

can you post the schema? Lets take a look at it.

Thanks

Reggie

[Bill Bertera]

Tim Hallbauer wrote:

HL7 to XML to the vendor, then XML to HL7 back. I have a schema in a Word doc. Do I just create that in a file and then compile it?

yah, cut and paste it into a text file, with extension .xsd. upload to Cloverleaf /formats/xml directory (might need a sub-dir underneath that, can’t remember) and compile with Xml Configurator, and see what happens.

[Tim Hallbauer]

Been away for a while. Thanks for the help so far. Here’s the schema.

 

     ORM

     O01

 

 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

 

 

     

     

           

     

 

[Pete Gilbert]

Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be an xml schema. It looks like a stub xml doc.

[Tim Hallbauer]

Unfortunatly that’s all they gave me. Where do I go from here? What should I ask for? When I told him I needed a shema, he said that was it.

Detailed Description

XML input format

The raw format of the XML is as follows:

 

     ORM

     O01

[Pete Gilbert]

XML Spy will take a simple xml doc like you have and generate a schema from it.  This is what I got from xml spy when I fed your doc into it and asked it to do so:

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” elementFormDefault=”qualified”>

Note that there are no real data types here, just simple strings.

I believe that you can download a free, home version of XML Spy from the ALtova website.

[Tim Hallbauer]

Thanks, I’ll try that.

[Tim Hallbauer]

I was able to get the XML Spy and import the text document using the convert option, but what I get looks nothing like what you posted. I also get an error that the schema has to begin with a schema-element?

[Pete Gilbert]

the forum removed some of the formatting. I created a simple xml document baed on what you posted earlier (I mayhave nitroduced a typo or two). That file is simplesample1.xml. I had xml spy generate a schema from that file and attach it to the xml file. The schema file is simplesample1.xsd. Open the xml doc to see the document, and the xsd to see the schema.

I have attached both documents (in a zip, because the forum would not allow me to attach an xml document). You should get the formatting now.

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