[ANN] Schematron news

[Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>]

1) Schematron website front page updated (with hyphenation too!) to 
include more information about adopters, based on recent requests for this.
   http://www.schematron.com

2) ISO Schematron skeleton code distributions for XSLT1 and XSLT2 updated.
   http://www.schematron.com/implementation.html

   - some XPath syntax checking
   - fix for EXSLT
   - localization in several languages 
   - fast-fail option
   - tracks the proposed ISO Schematron standard update
   - bundles ISO versions of Schematron-in-XSD and Schematron-in-RELAX 
NG extractors

3) New version of Schematron for Ant  task.
   http://www.schematron.com/implementation.html

   - Full ISO Schematron
   - Beta, but 3rd release. Testers sought.
   - Supports XSLT1 and XSLT2
   - Support output as SVRL or message
   - Many options supported

4) Committee Draft of the proposed next gen ISO Schematron out
   http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc34/open/1419.pdf   (draft standard)
   
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/public-draft-of-next-generatio.html  
(commentary)

    - better modularization
    - better variables
    - patterns can be on different documents
    - properties support tool chains better
    - standardization of this update expected 1Q2011
 
5) Of possible interest at my blog

     - Using grammars with Schematron:
         
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/can-schematron-use-grammars-to-1.html
    - Schematron reference card
         
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/public-draft-of-next-generatio.html
    - A three-layer model for XML (software engineering)
         
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/03/a-three-layer-model-for-xml-wi.html

6) Another blog with Schematron information
   
      - Joel Byford's   NIEMatron site  with matters of interest wrt US 
NIEM effort
      http://niematron.blogspot.com/

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe