[GIS] SDE command to export/import feature class schema only without data

Question

I'm using ArcGIS Server 10.0, ArcSDE 10.0 and Oracle 11g.

I'd like to create a sde export of my layers' schema. The export would be used to create easily those layer in a new database instance.

Do you know of an export/import SDE command that allows that?

Or at least, is it possible to import an XML schema file using a SDE command or Python script?

Answer 1

At 10.1 they added geoprocessing tools to import/export XML workspace documents. At 10.0 you'd need to write something (see these: 1, 2) using ArcObjects, use Delete Rows beforehand, or use a more complex combination of geoprocessing tools and logic in Python (e.g. what X-Ray for ArcCatalog does).