Schematron Training: Introduction to Schematron

Course Number: XML-114
Duration: 1 day
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Schematron Training Overview

Accelebrate's Introduction to Schematron training teaches attendees how to use Schematron, defined at http://www.schematron.com as a language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in XML documents.

Location and Pricing

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Schematron Training Prerequisites

All attendees must have a solid understanding of XML and what makes an XML document well-formed. Prior XPath and or XML Schema experience is helpful but not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Schematron training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Schematron Training Materials

All attendees will receive comprehensive courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

An XML editor that understands Schematron (if you have no preference yet, Accelebrate can make suggestions).

Schematron Training Objectives

After this training, attendees shall be able to:

Understand Schematron’s role in the XML landscape
Explore how Schematron differs from XPath
Master Schematron patterns, rules, assertions, roles, and reports
Use Schematron tools such as diagnostics, variables, phased validation, and namespaces
Explore how to use Schematron in a wide variety of situations
Use Schematron in conjunction with XML Schema, RELAX NG, and other XML technologies

Schematron Training Outline

Introduction

Why Schematron?
Schematron implementations
Schematron and other validation languages
Schematron and the XML landscape

Before Schematron: XPath

XPath expressions
Axes
Predicates
Shortcuts
XPath functions
XPath operators

Basic Schematron

Patterns, rules and assertions
Reports
Roles

Other Schematron tools

Diagnostics
Variables
Phased Validation
Namespaces

Schematron usage

Mixed content
Computations
Basic constraints
Co-occurence constraints

Flexible Schematron

Phased validation
Using multiple Schematron documents
Schematron in other validation technologies
Schematron and W3C XML Schema
Schematron and RELAX NG

Schematron and SVRL

The XML pipeline
Schematron and XSLT
Using XSLT to validate against a schematron document
Introducing SVRL
Using Schematron and XSLT to generate SVRL

Conclusion

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