XML Schema: The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML

If you need to create or use formal descriptions of XML vocabularies, the W3C's XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable document structures and content. An alternative to DTDs as the way to describe and validate data in an XML environment, XML Schema enables developers to create precise descriptions with a richer set of datatypes-such as booleans, numbers, currencies, dates and times-that are essential for today's applications. Schemas are powerful, but that power ...