XML Schema Best Practices: The Roger Costello Show
December 11, 2000
One of the more engaging and entertaining keynotes was not really a
keynote at all, although it was delivered to the entire conference
audience. Mitre's Roger Costello presented his admittedly non-flashy
slides covering another hot topic: XML Schemas: Best
Practices - a set of guidelines for designing XML Schema, created
by discussions on the xml-dev mailing list. Even though his slides
were stark, his delivery of the material was definitely animated; it
may he hard to picture someone becoming visibly excited when
discussing XML Schema, but then you haven't seen Roger! He actually
managed to keep hundreds of people listening even when lunchtime
arrived. The six issues he enumerated were:
His Best Practices
summary page is particularly informative. Costello was very
excited about his Chameleon
Namespace design approach. You can also read about Russian Doll,
Salami Slice, and Venetian Blind designs. Roger recommended Oracle's
XML Schema Validator (requires free login). The W3C also hosts XSV, Henry
Thompson's XML Schema Validator.
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