Syntax-directed editors have some similarities with this idea.

But remember that for a given schema, there's an infinite number of possible
instances, and choosing a plausible one might not always be easy.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Lambrichs [mailto:marc.lambrichs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 November 2006 13:08
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  using xml schema to generate xml
> 
> I'm thinking of a scenario where I can generate an (instance) 
> xml-document based on an xml-schema and another xml-stream or 
> -file. I think I can parse the schema with xslt and lookup 
> the appropriate values in the other xml-file.
> 
> However, a more beautiful solution - I think - would be that 
> parsing the xml together with the schema, and since some 
> errors events will occur, attaching code to those events that 
> will put some nodes in the resulting xml. Has anybody had 
> some experience with one of these scenarios?
> 
> Cheers,
> Marc