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The document 'Introduction to Schematron' provides a comprehensive overview of Schematron, an XML-based validation language used for testing XML documents. It outlines its purpose, advantages, and basic components such as assertions, reports, rules, and patterns. The document explains how Schematron operates using XPath expressions to specify tests and generate detailed error messages. It also covers advanced topics like variable usage, namespaces, and the transition from XPath 1.0 to XPath 2.0, making it a valuable resource for understanding and implementing Schematron in XML validation.

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What is the difference between Schematron assert and report?

There are two kinds of Schematron test statements: assert statements fire when the statement evaluates to FALSE (this must always be true, so only tell me when its not) report statements fire when the statement evaluates to TRUE (this is interesting, tell me when this happens)

What are the phases of Schematron?

The Schematron contains different phases that are to be used in different workflow scenarios. Each Schematron phase includes a certain set of the validation rules that are relevant to the phase, while other validation rules that are not relevant are excluded from the phase.

What is Schematron validation rules?

Schematron enables rule-based validation Schematron is a rule-based validation language for transforming business and using case-specific requirements into technical validation rules. Schematron helps to tighten and narrow down message structure by stating structures that should or should not be used.

What is the difference between schema and Schematron?

Schematron is a schema language that does not use formal grammar and is not used for definition (like DTD and XML Schema) but rather for validation of XML documents. It defines rules that are not possible with grammar-based schema languages.

What is the basic of Schematron?

Schematron refers to a rule-based validation language used to define tests for an XML file. You can import the Schematron files and also edit them in Web Editor. Using a Schematron file you can define certain rules and then validate them for a DITA topic or a map.

How does Schematron work?

Schematron is based on a simple action: First, find useful context nodes in the document (typically an element) based on XPath path criteria; Then, check to see if some other XPath expressions are true, for each of those context nodes.

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