Support for building an XML / EML document?

[theamarks]

👋 Hi all,

Pretty new here and trying to get oriented with the inter-workings of this project and documentation. I am interested in authoring EML (Ecological Metadata Language) XML documents with LinkML, to help automate our data publishing pipeline and make the EML update process collaborative. I see this recent PR that looks relevant linkml/schema-automator#153, but can anyone help me understand if this is possible at the moment with this PR?

Thanks!

[dalito]

The schema-automator package helps to create linkML models/schemas based on data or schemas in other schema languages (the PR adds support for XSD).

For exporting to xml, you would need a generator. Such generator does not exist yet as far as I know (relevant issue #2498).

[theamarks]

Ok, so to make sure I'm hearing you correctly, the schema-automator could translate an XSD file (like this EML dataset element to generate a linkML model/schema?

[dalito]

Yes. For XML/XSD I have never done it myself, so I don't know how much is supported. Typically the conversion is not perfect and the LinkML schema needs additional refinement. For the first schema, you could also try one of the recent LLMs to create a matching linkML schema from your EML dataset. The models got a lot better at linkML in the last year.

[theamarks]

Thanks for your responses! I'll try to give it a whirl this week.

[cmungall]

Hi there! Eml is an interesting case because it’s both a schema for environmental datasets (but largely generic) plus a sql like metamodel where you can definite data dictionaries specific for your dataset. There are some issues / discussions on this let me look for them…

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