XML style guidelines for leveraging schema validators

[Posted November 12, 2003 by cook]

Erik Ostermueller discusses XML Schema validation on IBM's developerWorks. "Used correctly, XML Schema validation can dramatically reduce the effort necessary to perform basic data validation tasks. Additionally, validation rules that are centrally located in an XML schema can help users to better understand your system. It takes the right XML structure, however, to leverage a schema validator. This article discusses proper XML structure as well as best and worst practices for defining data validation rules in XML Schema."

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