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The --xsd command line option is used to request the XML Schema Document or XSD for a GridLAB-D module or class, which described the rules to which XML files that are processed by GridLAB-D must conform.
The primary reason for defining an XML schema is to formally describe an XML document; however the resulting schema has a number of other uses that go beyond simple validation.
- Code generation
- The schema can be used to generate code, referred to as XML Data Binding. This code allows contents of XML documents to be treated as objects within the programming environment.
- Document generation
- The schema can be used to generate human-readable documentation; this is especially useful where the authors have made use of the annotation elements. No formal standard exists for documentation generation, but a number of tools are available, such as the Xs3p stylesheet, that will produce high quality readable HTML and printed material.
Command line
To generate the XSD for a module, use the syntax
host% gridlabd --xsd module <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:element name="class_1"> </xs:element> <xs:element name="class_2"> </xs:element> <xs:element name="class_N"> </xs:element> </xs:schema>
To generate the XSD for a single class, use the syntax
host% gridlabd --xsd module:class <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:element name="class"> </xs:element> </xs:schema>