Your schema and the industry-standard schema

Track: Core Technologies, Metadata and Semantics

Audience Level: High Level view

Time: Wednesday, November 16 11:00

Author: Bob DuCharme, LexisNexis

Keywords: Content Model, DocBook, DTD, Interoperability, RELAX NG, Schema, W3C XML Schema, XHTML

Abstract:

Using an existing industry standard schema or DTD instead of developing your own provides obvious advantages. Only the luckiest find a perfect fit between a standard schema and their requirements; most need to customize the schema to take full advantage of it. They'll find that some schemas are more amenable than others to customization. Issues to consider include the modularity of a schema and the use of easily overridden parameter entities or their schema equivalents.