Schema Design

There are several very good resources for schema design. The list below shows a few I recommend.

“ASC X12 Reference Model for XML Design,” Type 2 Technical Report, by the ANSI Accredited Standards Committee X12. Available online at www.x12.org. While focusing primarily on a semantic architecture for X12's work on XML, this report discusses several syntax-level issues and recommendations regarding document and schema design.

“UBL Naming and Design Rules,” by the Naming and Design Rules subcommittee of OASIS's Universal Business Language Technical Committee. Available online at http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ndrsc/#documents. This is a very good framework for document and schema design. The specification itself generally just ...

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