Name
Schematron
Status
Schematron is an ongoing community project, and its most recent definition is published at http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/. Schematron is also part of the ISO Document Structure Description Language (DSDL). Information about that project can be found at http://www.dsdl.org/.
Description
Schematron uses tools from XSLT and XPath to define an extremely flexible set of tests for document structures. Schematron offers precision and customizable error reporting, though that precision can sometimes lead to very verbose schemas. As a result, Schematron is typically used to supplement RELAX NG or W3C XML Schema rather than to replace them.
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