xml-dev - Schematron (was Re: Remember to RELAX)

[Oliver Becker <obecker@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Hi Rick,

> For capturing many kinds of arbitrary constraints before modeling them,
> my schema language schematron is quite useful. 
> http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/schematron.html
> You can make assertions about the structure in a fairly rapid,
> incremental way. Then when you move to a schema language with datatyping
> (XMl Schemas, RELAX, etc) you can tick off or delete each assertion in
> the Schematron schema.

Would it be reasonable to change Schematron into a real open source
project supported by several contributors (hosted on sourceforge, for
example)?
Unfortunately I don't have any experience with that.

Schematron is very fine - but sometimes limited. So I add things myself
and write proprietary Schematron preprocessors (using an extended
Schematron language). Other users might do similary things ...

I think a little effort to concentrate the Schematron activities makes
a lot of sense.

Best regards,
Oliver


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