Creating Schema from Xml file

Here is a code snippet that creates a simple schema file from an
Xml file. It uses XmlSchemaInference class (available from .net 2.0+)
to inferschema from an xml file.

        XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(@"c:\binu\customer.xml");

        XmlSchemaSet schemaSet = new XmlSchemaSet();

        XmlSchemaInference schema = new XmlSchemaInference();



        schemaSet = schema.InferSchema(reader);

        TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(@"c:\binu\customer.xsd");

        foreach (XmlSchema s in schemaSet.Schemas())

        {

            s.Write(writer);

        }

Sample Xml file used:

<Customers>

<Customer CustomerName="Maria Anders" Country="Germany"/>

<Customer CustomerName="Ana Trujillo" Country="Russia"/>

<Customer CustomerName="Antonio Moreno" Country="Spain"/>

<Customer CustomerName="Thomas Hardy" Country="United Kingdom"/>

<Customer CustomerName="Maria Anders" Country="Holand"/>

<Customer CustomerName="Christina Berglund" Country="Sweden"/>

</Customers>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <xs:element name="Customers">

    <xs:complexType>

      <xs:sequence>

        <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Customer">

          <xs:complexType>

            <xs:attribute name="CustomerName" type="xs:string" use="required" />

            <xs:attribute name="Country" type="xs:string" use="required" />

          </xs:complexType>

        </xs:element>

      </xs:sequence>

    </xs:complexType>

  </xs:element>

</xs:schema>

Happy coding!
Cheers!