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How can I create an empty ArcGIS File Geodatabase using an XSD schema as input without any data

  • May 18, 2017
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How can I create an empty File Geodatabase using an XSD containing an ISO 19109 Application Schema?

I don't have any data meeting the schema since that is the point of this exercise - create the database from the schema and then populate the database.

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  • May 18, 2017

Hi,

Not exactly from a XSD you can try the following FME Hub templates:

https://hub.safe.com/?q=fgdb&page;=1&size;=10ℴ=relevance

Or from an XML template:

https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/40193/how-to-use-an-esri-template.html

For the second option you can run a truncate command to empty the gdb after creation.

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Hi @itay.

Thanks for the input but I really need to start from either an XSD (or an XMI at a push). I found a tool online called ShapeChangr but like quite a lot of open source it lacks proper documentation, examples and doesn't work as shown in the brief intro guide. A complication I have is that I am in a closed network not connected to the internet.

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