XML Schema for the GIR format

ondra.pelech · February 22, 2023, 10:11pm

Hello,
I’d like to ask where I can find the XML Schema (XSD) for the format of the GObject introspection repository (GIR) files.
I’ve found the following file but that is in all likelihood not the schema.
Could somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks a lot.

github.com

GNOME/gobject-introspection/blob/main/tests/scanner/annotationparser/tests.xsd

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
           xmlns:t="http://schemas.gnome.org/gobject-introspection/2013/test"
           targetNamespace="http://schemas.gnome.org/gobject-introspection/2013/test"
           elementFormDefault="qualified"
           version="1.0.0">

  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:documentation><![CDATA[
      GObject-Introspection - a framework for introspecting GObject libraries
      Copyright © 2013 Dieter Verfaillie <dieterv@optionexplicit.be>

      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
      as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
      of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

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ebassi · February 22, 2023, 10:39pm

The gobject-introspection repository contains the GIR schema in RelaxNG form. It should be complete enough to validate the GIR files generated by g-ir-scanner.

ondra.pelech · February 23, 2023, 12:22am

Internet says that one should be able to transform the RelaxNG schema to XSD using trang

Thanks @ebassi