How To Convert XSD into Array Using PHP

In this tutorial, I will describe how to convert xsd into an associative array. I had googled for this but unfortunately – I did not find a useful answer.
Here, I am sharing my thoughts, How to find an array from an XSD file, since there is no method in PHP to directly parse XSD file into an Array-like XML file. So I have used a trick to convert XSD into xml file and then into an array.

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Convert XSD into an array Using PHP

We’ll follow the following steps to converts XSD into the array.

Step 1: Load xsd file using php load() into document domain.

$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = true;
$doc->load('test.xsd');

Step 2: Save xsd file as an xml file.

$doc->save('t.xml');

Step 3: Generate xml as a string and remove xsd prefix.

$xmlfile = file_get_contents('t.xml');
$parseObj = str_replace($doc->lastChild->prefix.':',"",$xmlfile);

Finally, We have converted XSD into an XML file, Let’s use the XML lib function of PHP to get an array.

Step 4: Load xml string and convert into array.

$ob= simplexml_load_string($parseObj);
$json  = json_encode($ob);
$data = json_decode($json, true);
echo "";
print_r($data);

Full Source Code to Convert XSD to Array Using PHP

<?php
$doc--->$preserveWhiteSpace = true;
$doc->load('test.xsd');
$doc->save('t.xml');
$xmlfile = file_get_contents('t.xml');
$parseObj = str_replace($doc->lastChild->prefix.':',"",$xmlfile);
$ob= simplexml_load_string($parseObj);
$json  = json_encode($ob);
$data = json_decode($json, true);
echo "";
print_r($data);
?>

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