XSD Visualization?

Question

I've been working with a lot of semi-complicated XSD's lately and am wondering: What are some of the better tools for working with XML schema? Are there any graphical tools?

Standalone or Eclipse-based are ideal as we aren't a .net shop.

Answer 1

I find the Eclipse standard XSD editor to be OK. See some screenshots here. You can install it from the standard update site.

Answer 2

I have been hunting for tools to visualise XSD files for a long while now. and as already stated. my top two are

• Altova XML Spy
  • Best features and great look and feel. prohibitively expensive for the small user.
• Liquid XML Studio
  • Really good alternative to Altova, does things a little differently, but its worth finding out the methods in LiquidXML

Outside of those two, I personally struggle to find tools which can present all the information visually (especially long XSD Files). this includes listing the enumeration values of elements.

If you just need a quick method to view XSD files visually, I quite like these two viewing tools.

• XSD Diagram - EXE file download
• XML Grid - Online XSD viewer