Definitive XML Schema, 2nd Edition

""XML Schema 1.1 has gone from strong data typing to positively stalwart--so powerful it can enforce database level constraints and business rules, so your data transfer code won't have to. This book covers the 1.1 changes--and more--in its 500 revisions to Priscilla Walmsley's 10-year best-selling classic. It's the guide you need to navigate XML Schema's complexity--and master its power!"" --Charles F. Goldfarb For Ten Years the World's Favorite Guide to XML Schema--Now Extensively Revised for Version 1.1 and Today's Best Practices! To leverage XML's full power, organizations need shared vocabularies based on XML Schema. For a full decade, Definitive XML Schema has been the most practical, accessible, and usable guide to working with XML Schema. Now, author Priscilla Walmsley has thoroughly updated her classic to fully reflect XML Schema 1.1, and to present new best practices for designing successful schemas. Priscilla helped create XML Schema as a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group, so she is well qualified to explain the W3C recommendation with insight and clarity. Her book teaches practical techniques for writing schemas to support any application, including many new use cases. You'll discover how XML Schema 1.1 provides a rigorous, complete specification for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes; and walk through the many aspects of designing and applying schemas, including composition, instance validation, documentation, and namespaces. Then, building on the fundamentals, Priscilla introduces powerful advanced techniques ranging from type derivation to identity constraints. This edition's extensive new coverage includesMany new design hints, tips, and tricks - plus a full chapter on creating an enterprise strategy for schema development and maintenance Design considerations in creating schemas for relational and object-oriented models, narrative content, and Web services An all-new chapter on assertions Coverage of new 1.1 features, including overrides, conditional type assignment, open content and more Modernized rules for naming and design Substantially updated coverage of extensibility, reuse, and versioning And much more If you're an XML developer, architect, or content specialist, with this Second Edition you can join the tens of thousands who rely on Definitive XML Schema for practical insights, deeper understanding, and solutions that work.

'XML Schema 1.1 has gone from strong data typing to positively stalwart-so powerful it can enforce database level constraints and business rules, so your data transfer code won’t have to. This book covers the 1.1 changes-and more-in its 500 revisions to Priscilla Walmsley’s 10-year best-selling classic. It’s the guide you need to navigate XML Schema’s complexity-and master its power!'

-Charles F. Goldfarb

For Ten Years the World’s Favorite Guide to XML Schema-Now Extensively Revised for Version 1.1 and Today’s Best Practices!

To leverage XML’s full power, organizations need shared vocabularies based on XML Schema. For a full decade, Definitive XML Schema has been the most practical, accessible, and usable guide to working with XML Schema. Now, author Priscilla Walmsley has thoroughly updated her classic to fully reflect XML Schema 1.1, and to present new best practices for designing successful schemas.

Priscilla helped create XML Schema as a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group, so she is well qualified to explain the W3C recommendation with insight and clarity. Her book teaches practical techniques for writing schemas to support any application, including many new use cases. You’ll discover how XML Schema 1.1 provides a rigorous, complete specification for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes; and walk through the many aspects of designing and applying schemas, including composition, instance validation, documentation, and namespaces. Then, building on the fundamentals, Priscilla introduces powerful advanced techniques ranging from type derivation to identity constraints. This edition’s extensive new coverage includes

• Many new design hints, tips, and tricks – plus a full chapter on creating an enterprise strategy for schema development and maintenance
• Design considerations in creating schemas for relational and object-oriented models, narrative content, and Web services
• An all-new chapter on assertions
• Coverage of new 1.1 features, including overrides, conditional type assignment, open content and more
• Modernized rules for naming and design
• Substantially updated coverage of extensibility, reuse, and versioning
• And much more

If you’re an XML developer, architect, or content specialist, with this Second Edition you can join the tens of thousands who rely on Definitive XML Schema for practical insights, deeper understanding, and solutions that work.

"XML Schema 1.1 has gone from strong data typing to positively stalwart--so powerful it can enforce database level constraints and business rules, so your data transfer code won't have to. This book covers the 1.1 changes--and more--in its 500 revisions to Priscilla Walmsley's 10-year best-selling classic. It's the guide you need to navigate XML Schema's complexity--and master its power!"--Charles F. Goldfarb For Ten Years the World's Favorite Guide to XML Schema--Now Extensively Revised for Version 1.1 and Today's Best Practices! To leverage XML's full power, organizations need shared vocabularies based on XML Schema. For a full decade, Definitive XML Schema has been the most practical, accessible, and usable guide to working with XML Schema. Now, author Priscilla Walmsley has thoroughly updated her classic to fully reflect XML Schema 1.1, and to present new best practices for designing successful schemas. Priscilla helped create XML Schema as a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group, so she is well qualified to explain the W3C recommendation with insight and clarity. Her book teaches practical techniques for writing schemas to support any application, including many new use cases. You'll discover how XML Schema 1.1 provides a rigorous, complete specification for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes; and walk through the many aspects of designing and applying schemas, including composition, instance validation, documentation, and namespaces. Then, building on the fundamentals, Priscilla introduces powerful advanced techniques ranging from type derivation to identity constraints. This edition's extensive new coverage includes Many new design hints, tips, and tricks - plus a full chapter on creating an enterprise strategy for schema development and maintenance Design considerations in creating schemas for relational and object-oriented models, narrative content, and Web services An all-new chapter on assertions Coverage of new 1.1 features, including overrides, conditional type assignment, open content and more Modernized rules for naming and design Substantially updated coverage of extensibility, reuse, and versioning And much more If you're an XML developer, architect, or content specialist, with this Second Edition you can join the tens of thousands who rely on Definitive XML Schema for practical insights, deeper understanding, and solutions that work. “XML Schema 1.1 has gone from strong data typing to positively stalwart—so powerful it can enforce database level constraints and business rules, so your data transfer code won't have to. This book covers the 1.1 changes—and more—in its 500 revisions to Priscilla Walmsley's 10-year best-selling classic. It's the guide you need to navigate XML Schema's complexity—and master its power!” —Charles F. Goldfarb For Ten Years the World's Favorite Guide to XML Schema—Now Extensively Revised for Version 1.1 and Today's Best Practices! To leverage XML's full power, organizations need shared vocabularies based on XML Schema. For a full decade, Definitive XML Schema has been the most practical, accessible, and usable guide to working with XML Schema. Now, author Priscilla Walmsley has thoroughly updated her classic to fully reflect XML Schema 1.1, and to present new best practices for designing successful schemas. Priscilla helped create XML Schema as a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group, so she is well qualified to explain the W3C recommendation with insight and clarity. Her book teaches practical techniques for writing schemas to support any application, including many new use cases. You'll discover how XML Schema 1.1 provides a rigorous, complete specification for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes; and walk through the many aspects of designing and applying schemas, including composition, instance validation, documentation, and namespaces. Then, building on the fundamentals, Priscilla introduces powerful advanced techniques ranging from type derivation to identity constraints. This edition's extensive new coverage includes Many new design hints, tips, and tricks – plus a full chapter on creating an enterprise strategy for schema development and maintenance Design considerations in creating schemas for relational and object-oriented models, narrative content, and Web services An all-new chapter on assertions Coverage of new 1.1 features, including overrides, conditional type assignment, open content and more Modernized rules for naming and design Substantially updated coverage of extensibility, reuse, and versioning And much more If you're an XML developer, architect, or content specialist, with this Second Edition you can join the tens of thousands who rely on Definitive XML Schema for practical insights, deeper understanding, and solutions that work. Annotation The world's most usable, practical, easy-to-understand guide to XML Schema, now fully updated for Version 1.1 and modern best practicesIlluminates the real-world use of XML Schema through hundreds of outstanding examples. Includes all-new chapter on Assertions, plus valuable new design hints for use cases such as narrative content, Web services, and data binding. Adds new coverage of DTD topics, naming rules, extensibility, reuse, and versioning. By a world-class expert in XML schema and architecture. To leverage XML's full power, organizations need shared vocabularies based on XML Schema. For a full decade, Definitive XML Schema has been the most practical, accessible, and usable guide to working with the XML Schema specification. Now, author Priscilla Walmsley has thoroughly updated her classic to reflect the new XML Schema 1.1 spec and present today's best practices for constructing successful schema. Walmsley explains the current XML Schema standard with unsurpassed insight and clarity, and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any application, including many new use cases. Walmsley explains how XML Schema 1.1 provides a rigorous, complete standard for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes, and guides users through all facets of working with schema, including composition, instance validation, documentation, and namespaces. She covers each XML schema building block, offers an in-depth primer on effective schema design, and presents advanced techniques ranging from type derivation to identity constraints. This edition adds extensive new coverage, including:Many new design hints, tips, and tricks. Factors to consider when designing schema for narrative content, Web services, and data binding. An entirely new chapter on assertions. Substantially updated coverage of redefining and overriding schema components; naming/design rules; extensibility, reuse, versioning, and more The authoritative XML Schema reference and tutorial! * Leverage the full power of XML Schema! * In-depth coverage of the approved W3C Recommendation * Schema design--practical and thorough * Transition help for experienced DTD developers * Authoritative! By Priscilla Walmsley--a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group To leverage the full power of XML, companies need shared vocabularies to base their documents and scripts upon. XML Schema makes it possible to create those shared vocabularies--and Definitive XML Schema is the authoritative guide to the standard! Written by Priscilla Walmsley, a member of the W3C working group that created XML Schema, this book explains the W3C Recommendation with unprecedented insight and clarity--and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B, Web service, or content processing application. Coverage includes: * How XML Schema provides a rigorous, complete standard for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes * Working with schemas: Schema composition, instance validation, documentation, namespaces, and more * XML Schema building blocks: elements, attributes, and types * Advanced techniques: type derivation, model groups, substitution groups, identity constraints, redefinition, and much more * An in-depth primer on effective schema design, including naming, document structure, and extensibility considerations * Transition guidance for experienced DTD developers Definitive XML Schema brings together expert guidance for schema design, superior approaches to schema development, and the most systematic XML Schema reference on the market. Whether you're a developer, architect, or content specialist, it's the only XML Schema resource you need!