Schematron 1.5 Skeleton Implementation Notes

History

• 1999-11 1.0 original by Rick Jelliffe
• 2000-04 1.2 new architecture by Oliver Becker
• 2000-06 extends from Ludvig Svenonius
• 2000-12 1.5 re-implementation by Miloslav Nic
• 2001-01 1.5 This version created by merging the above by by Rick Jelliffe

Method

• Create conformance language, from Francis Norton's idea
• Set up test environment, including the XSLTestTool
• Test against XT, Instant Saxon, Saxon (comes with XML Spy), Sablotron

Workarounds

• Early SAXON not suport name({@path}), needs concat("name(", @path, ")") (Fix supplied by JA)
• Francis' version of get-full-path works for Sablotron but no the others. This seems to be that the test (.=/) does not work as expected on the others.
• Don't use key() because XT doesn't support it.
• XT does not support keys, so better to stick with the current clunky method for now, and upgrade to Miloslav's in a year.

Quirks

• You can compile and run using SAXON. But if you want to work offline, you must have a local copy of the DTD or SAXON will fail.
• You can compile and run using Instant SAXON. But if you want to work offline, you must have a local copy of the DTD or Instant SAXON will fail.
• You can compile under under XT.
• You can compile and run under Sablotron 0.50, but you have merge the skeleton with your new code by hand because Sablotron does not suppotr import.