query about initial generation of online schema definition

[druimalban]

I have been developing my own data model, and I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how the initial online schema is generated.

From the makefile, as far as I understand, you do this:

1. Run linkml gen-project on the meta.yaml, which in turn depends on all of the other yaml definitions, like linkml:types, linkml:units;
2. Run linkml gen-doc from the project directory, which generates markdown files;
3. Call mkdocs on the generated markdown files.

However, the calls in meta.yaml are via the imports directive, which, in the default behavior (going by the gen-project help command, I can't see any other behavior), will fetch these from the URL provided.

This suggests to me that, when you were developing LinkML, you bootstrapped the schema somehow, which generated the initial online definition.

I can work around this by generating documentation for each YAML schema (either manually or in a makefile), and putting it on a local web server (some directory like localhost/schema or similar). This is OK for one schema, like your schema.org example, but it becomes increasingly difficult, even with a makefile, for 12 or more different 'child' schemata.

What is the process of generating the schema, in absence of an extant online schema? Is there a way to feed it a directory of YAML schemata which will produce something like w3id.org/linkml?