Schematron: A Language for Validating XML

Contents

• Introduction: introduces Schematron and provides background.
• Schematron in context: provides an overview of XML validation, the main languages currently used to validate XML, and introduces Schematron as an important part of the validation tool set.
• Applying Schematron: describes how to create and validate using Schematron and introduces the most commonly used processors for Schematron.
• Schematron basics: describes how to set up a Schematron schema, and introduces the most frequently used constructs in Schematron.
• Advanced Schematron: covers advanced Schematron features such as localization, abstract rules, pattern reuse, and more.
• Query language binding and using XSLT: describes how to use different query languages, as well as XSLT, as part of a Schematron schema.
• Additional features: covers lesser used features such as message text markup, flags, properties, structured comments, and more.
• Schematron examples and recipes: examples of how to use Schematron for common situations, such as validating schemas, checking for multiple id references, validating processing instructions and comments, and detecting incorrect nesting.
• XPath technology primer: introduces XPath, which is used extensively in Schematron, including features such as tree navigation, special operators, expressions, and more.
• An introduction to namespaces: describes XML namespaces and how Schematron treats namespaces.
• Schematron references: a detailed reference to the Schematron language.
• SVRL reference: a detailed reference to the Schematron Validation Reporting Language (SVRL), which is an XML-based schema used by Schematron processors to produce output that can be post-processed by another program.
• Schematron QuickFix: a Schematron extension that embeds suggested fixes for errors. A QuickFix-aware IDE can use this information to offer a user the opportunity for the IDE to immediately apply a fix to the document being validated.
• Additional resources: a bibliography of resources for further exploration.