Architecture

Concept

xsData is trying to convert schema definitions by making a few assumptions about them:

• They are opinionated

• They are too abstract

• There are more than one way to achieve the same result

• There are no best practices

• In the end Elements are classes and Attributes are class fields

• The rest is noise or metadata :)

Schema Parser

xsdata.codegen.parsers.schema.SchemaParser

The schema parser objectifies the xml data to simple python dataclass instances that are easy to work and extract all the relevant information.

Schema Mapper

xsdata.codegen.mappers.schema.SchemaMapper

The builder goes through all the root elements of a schema to create a list of class candidates.

• All root elements are considered class candidates

• Traverse the root elements object tree

• Detect fields and extensions

• Detect inner classes

• Assign namespaces and default value fields

Root elements: simpleType, attributeGroup, group, attribute, complexType, element

Field elements: attribute, enumeration, restiction, element

Extension elements: union, attributeGroup, group, extension, restriction

Class Analyzer

xsdata.codegen.analyzer.ClassAnalyzer

The analyzer goes through all class candidates and flattens attributes and extensions based on certain criteria.

Promote for generation:

• Classes derived from xsd element with abstract flag set to False

• Classes derived from xsd complexType with abstract flag set to False

• Classes derived from xsd restiction with enumeration fields

Code Writer

xsdata.codegen.writer.CodeWriter

Code writer is a factory that delegates the code generation to the formats with their language conventions.