Learn how to validate XML documents against an XML schema definition language (XSD) schema, using an XmlSchemaSet class in .NET. XML documents are validated by the xref:System.Xml.XmlReader.Create%2A ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document. In this blog entry, I will look at using Apache XMLBeans‘s tool called inst2xsd to also generate ...

The Schema Object Model (SOM) API can be used to read and write XML Schema definition language (XSD) schemas from files or other sources and build XML schemas in ...

Abstract: XML is the de facto standard format for data exchange manipulation of structured documents. XML schema provides important structural information of XML documents. Unfortunately, much XML ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft popped out a rather unexpected press release: "Microsoft Announces Availability of Open and Royalty-Free License for Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas". Read the press ...

Back in September, Jack Vaughan went out on a limb (or is that branch?) and predicted the eventual fading of XML, long the lingua franca of the Web services age. (See "XML on the wane? Say it isn't so ...