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The Basics of Schemas

When you're working with databases, there are two primary perspectives to use when working with the data. The first is the syntactic approach, which is a description of the data's structure. A schema used to describe the structure of the data is known as a syntactic schema. The other approach is to examine the concepts and relationships between the data. The schema to describe this is known as a conceptual schema, and XML-Data can be used to describe schemas of both types.

Since you're using XML to construct the schemas, the basic structure of a schema is that of an XML file. This is demonstrated in the following code:

 <? xml version="1.0" ?> <Schema name="NameOfSchema" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data"> <!--body ...