RE: [xml-dev] XML schema Management

["Nathan Young -X \(natyoung - Artizen at Cisco\)" <natyoung@cisco.com>]

So are you talking about auto generating a bunch of schemas based on a
core description of the data model and a set of rules for getting from
the core description to each individual case you need?  Or am I
misunderstanding?

---->Nathan



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Nathan Young
Cisco.com->Interface Development
A: ncy1717
E: natyoung@cisco.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 9:45 AM
> To: 'Fraser Goffin'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML schema Management
> 
> > The problem : managing the production, versioning, 
> > consistency, .... of a large number of XML schema (typically 
> > for message based service interfaces) spawned from a core 
> > business domain data model.
> 
> I've seen other people struggle with this problem. I haven't 
> seen it solved,
> but I've come to the conclusion that you need to put a lot of 
> effort into
> tooling, and I strongly suspect you are better off developing 
> your own tools
> in-house that are designed to your own specific requirements 
> - though I
> can't say that's based on detailed study of what the market can offer.
> 
> I have seen an analagous problem solved, of managing hundreds 
> of stylesheets
> for processing different transactions in an online banking 
> system. This was
> done by devising a common high-level description of the 
> various screens, and
> generating the stylesheets from these master definitions, 
> thus ensuring
> consistency. I believe it should be possible to do the same thing for
> controlling a large set of message schemas - but I haven't 
> seen an existence
> proof.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>