Schematron

As far as XML standards I think some interesting standards that are on the cusp to explode are XForms and Schematron.

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Schematron is being used for XML validation where business rules need to be validate in the data.

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Mulberry Technologies, Inc. have been very gracious in providing several tutorials through the years on emerging technologies, i.e., XSLT and Schematron.

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Schematron is also the right tool to use if you have to raise user-friendly error messages rather than depend on error messages that are generated by a schema processor and that are often obscure.

Archive 2007-03-25 David Bigwood 2007

Schematron is the right tool for checking conditions such as "startDate is earlier than or equal to endDate."

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Schematron is often most effective in conjunction with another schema language.

Schematron David Bigwood 2007

You need Schematron and can't settle for other languages if you have to check rules that go beyond checking the document structures i.e., checking that an element bar is included in element foo and their datatypes.

Schematron David Bigwood 2007

Schematron is also the right tool to use if you have to raise user-friendly error messages rather than depend on error messages that are generated by a schema processor and that are often obscure.

Schematron David Bigwood 2007

Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language, offering flexibility and power that W3C XML schema, RELAX NG, and DTDs simply can't match.

Archive 2007-03-25 David Bigwood 2007

You will need to understand XPath to to get the most from Schematron.

Schematron David Bigwood 2007