On 17/12/2010 14:33, Pete Cordell wrote:
> I recently put together a schema language for newbies that aims to be
> simple. The idea was that an example of your XML data could be your
> schema. Chances are that alone wouldn't be rich enough, so you can
> then add annotations to it to better describe what you want. For that
> reason I've called it "Annotated XML Example" or AXE.
>
Vaclav Trojan has a similar schema-by-annotated-example specification in
the form of XDefinition:
see http://www.syntea.cz/xdweb/userdoc/XMLPrague2009_en.pdf
<book category="optional enumeration('children','adult','unknown')">
<title> required string() </title>
<author> required string() </author>
<IBSN> optional numeric(8,15) </IBSN>
<price> required decimal(4,2) </price>
</book>
Michael Kay
Saxonica
