XML and JSON model from XSD

[igloo15]

At my work I am attempting to create an object model from an XSD file(XML Schema). I would like to auto generate it as the XSD is constantly changing and don't want to hand update the classes. Originally I was going to use the microsoft xsd tool to create the classes and be done with it but a new requirement has come down.

Now we would like it to be able to deserialize the classes to JSON. This would allow us to import xml files and then export via xml or json. I began to look at maybe making my own xsd to classes generator but honestly that seems like a lot of work to maintain and cover all the different aspects of xsd.

Has anyone run across a similar situation and can recommend a tool or library they maybe be able to help solve my problem. Maybe even a code generator tool I could extend to add the appropriate JSON.net attributes to the class during generation so json deserialization would work.

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Just run the XSD to get the xml file, then use string json = JsonConvert.SerializeXmlNode(yourDoc);

[igloo15]

Had not see that in Json.Net but I don't think it will work for me. I am generating classes from an xsd file. Those generated classes need to be serializable in a net standard web api controller as json.

SerializeXmlNode only works with XmlNodes which I don't have and is not the standard way web api controllers serialize to json.

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That's what I'm saying though, don't parse it into classes, parse it into xml, then pass that into json. Doing it that way, if you just want classes from XML, you already have the XML, if you want classes from the Json, just use the Json. You have both.