Best way to Handle a XSD file

[EFileTahi-A]

All financial programs here on portugal must now be able to export the their database in a XSD type file, but, I dont have a clue how to do this in my application. They gave me however, a XSD file containing all fields and the data structure to hold all companies data.

So, what will I do? Load the XSD file into my application and fill it on my own throught code?
Or I should generate the whole thing to a XML file and then convert it to XSD?

Either way, I dont know how to do it, Im reading some tutorials for XML but I cant find nothing regarding XSD. I also heard that I need a SDX.exe or so to conver the XML into a XSD... is this true?

God Help me...
Thank you all in advance...

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

A XSD simply defines the structure of an XML file - it doesnt contain any actual data itself. http://www.w3schools.com/schema/default.asp has a basic tutorial / overview of what an xsd is - well worth a read.

.Net provides a utility called XSD.EXE that can generate a code model based on a XSD file.