How to Generate an XSD File
To generate an XSD file for the catalog schema, you export a file with the FormatType property of the ExportOptions parameter set to CatalogFormatXsd. If you specify this attribute, other properties such as CatalogsToExport and PropertiesToExport are ignored. An XSD file is generated.
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Do not create a multilingual property "Name" in the category definition. This causes a conflict with existing properties, and the export will fail. |
To generate an XSD file
Create a CatalogExportOptions object and set the FormatType property to CatalogFormatXsd.
Use one of the ExportXml methods on the CatalogContext object to start the export operation.
Monitor the status of the export operation and look for errors by using the Status property of the ExportProgress object returned by the ExportXml method.
Example
This example describes how to generate an XSD file. It generates the file "testfile.xml" in the temp directory of this computer.
public static void ExportCatalog(CatalogContext context, string catalogName)
{
// 3-second refresh interval.
const int RefreshInterval = 3000;
// Create CatalogExportOptions and set the options
// for the export operation.
CatalogExportOptions exportOptions = new CatalogExportOptions();
exportOptions.FormatType = CatalogExportFormatType.CatalogFormatXsd;
exportOptions.Synchronous = false;
// The XSD will be written to an XML file "testfile" in the
// temp directory on this computer.
string fileName = Path.GetTempPath() + @"\testfile.xml";
// Call ExportXML to generate the XSD. Monitor the progress of the operation.
ExportProgress progress = context.ExportXml(exportOptions, fileName);
while (progress.Status == CatalogOperationsStatus.InProgress)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(RefreshInterval);
progress.Refresh();
}
// If the export operation failed, write the errors to the console.
if (progress.Status == CatalogOperationsStatus.Failed)
{
foreach (CatalogError error in progress.Errors)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Line number: {0} Error message: {1}",
error.LineNumber, error.Message));
}
}
}