Generate java class hierarchy from xml (plist)

Question

Are there any tools that can automatically generate java class hierarchy from xml (plist)?

Say we have:

<blah>
    <item />
    <item />
</blah>

And we need to get something like:

class Blah {

Collection<Item> items;

}

...and so on and so forth

You may want to look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/686453/3340 — Jacob Schoen, Mar 14 '12 at 14:59
Of course you need to generate a schema from the XML first, with a tool like trang or (better) manually. — Hauke Ingmar Schmidt, Mar 14 '12 at 15:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '12 at 15:09

If I get it right, then the elements shall be transformed into class and field names.

This can be done with a few lines of code:

parse the xml document into a DOM
walk through the DOM tree and create a java source file in memory (StringBuilder)
write the source file to your file system

Or use XSLT to create a transformation from your xml document to a java source file.

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