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From: "Eddie Robertsson" <erobertsson@allette.com.au>
> Len, I'm a huge fan of Schematron but I sometimes find that defining
> structure in Schematron can be a bit complex and cumbersome.
Probably the main infelicity in Schematron is that when attempting
to dissect datatypes into parts, the XPath gets unworkably long.
At the Barcelona conference there was a very nice paper on
a Portuguese language called XML Constraint Specification
Language which is along the same lines as Schematron.
Schematron 1.5 is better than it for higher-level
facilities (multiple assertions, rule chaining, diagnostics, phases)
but XCSL has a <let> statement which makes variables
available and so tames those long datatype dissections.
For ISO Schematron, I hope to incorporate XCSL's <let>
statement into Schematron rules. That will greatly increase
Schematron's friendliness for delving into structured text
values.
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
P.S. Schematron is now available as a PHP module.
See http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/schematron.html
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