Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (First Edition) Note Published

The XML Core Working Group has published a Group Note of Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (First Edition). There are several document schema definition languages in common use today that can be used to specify one or more validation processes performed against Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents. Some schema languages provide their own syntax for associating schemas with documents (DTD, W3C XML Schema) and some languages (RELAX NG, Schematron) do not provide schema association mechanisms at all. The purpose of this specification is to define a common, schema-agnostic syntax for associating schema documents written in any schema definition language with a given XML document. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.