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BUPTSSE SOA principles practice Lecture 3 XML Schemas XML Schemas /TR/xmlschema-0/ (Primer)  /TR/xmlschema-1/ (Structures) /TR/xmlschema-2/ (Datatypes) Schema Validators GUI Oriented XML Spy Turbo XML Command Line Only XSV by Henry Thompson ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/XSV/XSV12.EXE Has a Programmatic API xerces by Apache /xerces-j/index.html IBM Schema Quality Checker /tech/xmlsqc MSXML6.0 What is XML Schemas? Answer: An XML vocabulary for expressing your datas business rules An XML Schema: defines elements that can appear in a document defines attributes that can appear in a document defines which elements are child elements defines the order of child elements defines the number of child elements defines whether an element is empty or can include text defines data types for elements and attributes defines default and fixed values for elements and attributes Example Validating your data Purpose of XML Schemas (and DTDs) Specify: the structure of instance documents this element contains these elements, which contains these other elements, etc the datatype of each element/attribute this element shall hold an integer with the range 0 to 12,000 (DTDs dont do too well with specifying datatypes like this) Highlights of XML Schemas XML Schemas are a tremendous advancement over DTDs: Enhanced datatypes 44+ versus 10 Can create your own datatypes Example: This is a new type based on the string type and elements of this type must follow this pattern: ddd-dddd, where d represents a digit. Written in the same syntax as instance documents less syntax to remember Highlights of XML Schemas(Cont) XML Schemas are a tremendous advancement over DTDs: Object-orientedish Can extend or restrict a type (derive new type definitions on the basis of old ones) Can express sets, i.e., can define the child elements to occur in any order Can specify element content as being unique (keys on content) and uniqueness within a region Can define multiple elements wit