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Read Any Good Schemas Lately?

Abstract

An often-overlooked feature of the W3C's XML Schema language is its ability to include documentation. This session will look at this feature and tools to generate high-quality documentation directly from the schema itself. We'll look at XSLT techniques to generate grammatically correct descriptions of schema constructs. We'll also look at ways to generate different national language versions of documentation from the same schema. A well-documented schema can be a tremendous asset for your content management efforts; this session will show you how to create and maintain one.

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Biography

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Programmer at IBM. His job as a Cyber Evangelist is to help customers solve business problems with new technology. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and speaks regularly on XML, Java, security, and Web servivces topics around the world. At his appearances, he rarely fails to mention that he is the author of O'Reilly's book on XSLT (ISBN 0-596-00053-7) and a co-author of O'Reilly's book on SOAP (ISBN 0-596-00095-2), both of which make lovely gifts. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Georgia, and can be reached at dtidwell@us.ibm.com.