Graphically browsing schema documents described by XML schema

摘要

Techniques for providing graphical representations of a semantic structure of XML Schema documents which can explicitly represent not only composition/aggregation relationships between related datatypes and their child elements but also inheritance relationships between supertypes and subtypes in a single GUI screen of graphical schema browsers. Compact graphical schema diagrams for representing complex relationships between datatypes and elements inherent in XML schema documents can be generated, and can easily and quickly be browsed. The techniques disclosed herein are useful for any graphical XML Schema editor that can edit XML Schema document with the GUI screen views.