> Is there a standards compliant way of 'wrapping' a W3C XML
> Schema with a Data Dictionary type view (perhaps using XSLT
> or XQuery) so that it can be queried using simpler XPath expressions?
There's no standard way. Saxon has a mechanism to export a schema (that is,
a compiled set of schema components) as an XML representation which very
closely resembles the schema component model. This is much easier to query
than the raw XML schema documents. But it's not a standard.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
