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Schemas and Specifications

Implementers planning new versions should consider implementing the additional features of the draft for the 2011 update of ISO Schematron.

ISO Schematron Implementations

Rick Jelliffe's version of ISO Schematron, for XSLT1 and XSLT2 systems, is available at this site.

Schematron Support

Related Resources for Schematron

XSD to Schematron

XSD to Schematron converter (ZIP archive, XSLT2) beta March 2010 includes sample build.xml ant script.

Obsolete Versions of Schematron

For the specification for ISO Schematron, click the Specification link left.

Schematron 1.5 specification

The Schematron 1.5 spec

Well known URI

The well known URI for Schematron 1.5 is http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron.

Root namespace URI for Schematron 1.5

http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron is the namespace of the root element of a schematron schema.

Schematron 1.5 Home Page

The original home page for Schematron 1.5 at Academia Sinica. This page has details of various implementations.

Schematron 1.5 Reference Implementation for XSLT

Schematron 1.5 is obsolescent. For new and maintained projects, please use ISO Schematron, available from this site Schematron.com.

The reference implementation is a software project based around skeleton1-5.xsl. It has been tried on 12 different and the test results are available on that page, togther with API documentation and samples of .BAT files for running the code with various XSLT processors.

Various tools include an error browser and a validator for interactive debugging in editors.

Schematron 1.5 tools are still being ported from 1.3. Some implementations at the Sinica site are pre-1.5 (see below). These are should be fine for schemas that just use patterns, rules, asserts, reports and names.

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Schematron 1.3 Reference Implementation for XSLT

Schematron 1.3 software project and earlier tools and schemas

Schematron 1.5 Schema for Schematron 1.5

A Schematron Schema for Schematron 1.5. If possible, please use your own local or cached copy.

XML Schema for Schematron 1.5

An XML Schema for Schematron 1.5. If possible, please use your own local or cached copy.

To help systems that do not understand RDDL, put the following attributes on the sch:schema element:

       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron
          http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron/schematron1-5.xsd"

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XML DTD for Schematron 1.5

A DTD for Schematron1.5. If possible, please use your own local or cached copy.

We do not recommend using the DTD except for document creation, because some implementations of XSLT do not handle relative file location correctly.

If you are not using namespace prefixes, put the following document type declaration at the top of your schema (after any XML declaration and stylesheet declaration):

<!DOCTYPE schema PUBLIC "http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron"
   "http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron/schematron1-5.dtd">

If you are using namespace prefixes, put the following document type declaration at the top of your schema (after any XML declaration and stylesheet declaration):

<!DOCTYPE sch:schema PUBLIC "http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron"
   "http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron/schematron1-5.dtd"
[
  <!ENTITY % sp "sch:">
]>

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