Practical Uses of the SOM

The SOM is primarily used for reading information, not for writing information. SAX and the DOM provide the tools for writing information to a document. The following topics provide examples of applications that use the SOM.

• Creating an Input Form from an XML Schema
• Creating a Document Map from an XML Schema

The following topics provide examples of applications that could be created with the SOM, but would be more easily created with SAX or the DOM. The purpose of these examples is to provide ideas that can be expanded on in other situations.

• Creating a DTD or XDR Schema from an XML Schema
• Creating a SQL Schema from an XML Schema Document

See Also

SOM Starter Kit