XML Schemas
There are two parts to the XML Schema specification: Structures and Data Types. The Structures specification describes a replacement syntax for describing XML documents to a finer granularity than is possible with a document type definition (DTD—the current method standardized with the XML 1.0 recommendation). The Data Types specification defines primi tive data types that can be used in XML schema and other XML specifications like XSL and RDF.
Note
At the time of this writing, the XML Schema specification is still a working draft. The latest specification can be found at http://www.w3c.org/TR.
The purpose of an XML Schema is to define and describe a class of XML documents by using XML-compliant markup to constrain and document the ...
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