Building Schema from Existing XFM files.

RE: Building Schema from Existing XFM files.

Oto — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:21:44 GMT

Has anyone done this?

Re: Building Schema from Existing XFM files.

Jeff Nolan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:02:53 GMT

This is a great idea, and would be valid for shp files also. The user could import all their shape files into Bentley Map, and then create a schema.

Re: Building Schema from Existing XFM files.

Gijsbert — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:16:06 GMT

Hi Ian,

Great idea.

The answer is: not automatically, unfortunately.

This is how you/we could make it work:

Save the GIS import definititions in a impx file;
Define a stylesheet (XSLT) to take the contents of the impx file and create an XFM schema with it;
Transform the impx using the XSLT

The challenge is that the XML formats for the impx and XFM schema file have not been 'formalized' in a XSD. So it would require some in-depth (reverse) engineering. Maybe a topic for the geospatial desktop community?

Cheers,

Gijsbert