I recommend viewing the tutorials using the Firefox browser.
George Bina has a nice Flash video of using Schematron in Oxygen XML.
The tutorials are HTML documents. Some of them appear as slide shows. I am using S5 for this.
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Schematron is an XML-based language for validating XML instance documents. Schematron is used to make assertions about data in an XML document. Schematron is used to express operational and business rules.
Schematron is an ISO standard.
Use Schematron to verify data interdependencies (co-constraints), check data cardinality, and perform algorithmic checks. A co-constraint is a dependency between data within an XML document or across XML documents. Cardinality refers to the presence or absence of data. An algorithmic check determines data validity by performing an algorithm on the data.
These tutorials teach the core concepts of Schematron. However, there are some aspects that are not covered, such as the use of abstract patterns, <report> versus <assert>, and performance of the different Schematron tools. I invite you to create a short tutorial on some aspect of Schematron and I will incorporate it here, and, of course, you will be acknowledged as the author. (Please format it as an S5 document)
I would like to thank George Cristian Bina for reviewing these tutorials. I would like to thank Rob Simmons for co-authoring a couple of the tutorials, and for keeping me focussed on objective facts. Also, I would like to thank Rick Jelliffe for his help explaining to me the proper use of Schematron, and for making all this possible (Rick is the creator of Schematron).
Eric van der Vlist has written an O'Reilly e-book on Schematron.
Dave Pawson has written a very fine Schematron Tutorial. Between his tutorial, Eric's book, and my tutorial you should have all the information you need!
This is a nice cover page.
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Last Updated: January 1, 2008