20.2. Creating a Schema for a Set of Documents: Document Analysis

The process of examining a collection of documents and describing its “shape” by using a DTD or schema is called “document analysis.” The process works best when a schema specialist works with a cadre of people already dealing with the documents whose structure is to be analyzed (rather than doing it alone, with just sample documents, or rather than having some untrained person doing the analysis without a schema specialist). In this section, we call the cadre plus the specialist the “team.”

In the following sections, we cover a sample scenario showing how a document analysis might proceed and a few examples of things a document analyst must look for.

20.2.1. Scenario: A Document ...

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