COAP:COAP-2180/week7

(under construction ....)

Week seven includes two topics:

WARNING/REMINDER: The Wednesday week 7 lesson is cancelled. Make-up class is scheduled for next Friday (december 10) at 12.00h .

Ray, Learning XML, Second Edition, Chapter 4, Quality Control with Schemas (ok explanation by example, but a bit too short)
Harold, XML in a Nutshell, XML Schema, chapter 17 (this text is not too easy to understand, but useful reading anyhow)

Task

Take the DTD from your term project or homework 4/5.
Create an XSD from the DTD
Add extra constraints that are appropriate with respect to your project. Typically you may constrain the number of child elements and add data types for element and/or attribute contents.

Tips:

Deadline and submission:

Monday week 8 (before start of class)
Use the world classroom: https://webster.blackboard.edu/
Submit the *.xsd, the *.xml test files, and an optional optional report file (see below)

Evaluation criteria (roughly)

Work considered as weak:

Work considered as minimalistic:

Minimal changes, e.g. a single extra constraint with respect to the number of child elements

Good work and excellent work (B to A-) may include one or several of the following:

Inserted comments in the XSD that explain some (not all) of the schema
A report (e.g. in HTML, word, PDF etc.)
All possible sorts of extra constraints you could reasonably use for your problem

Brilliant work (A)

Does all of the above, i.e. produces a result that could be used in real life.

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