Version 1.0-pre-3 of XML Zebra is now available. It adds the ability to
select which global elements are used as root elements. See
https://launchpad.net/xmlzebra/+announcement/5454
Cheers, Tony.
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:31:12 -0000, Anthony B. Coates (Google)
<[email protected]> wrote:
Version 1.0-pre-2 of XML Zebra is now available. It adds support for
substitution groups, and you can now set namespace prefixes via the
command line.
https://launchpad.net/xmlzebra/+announcement/5072
Cheers, Tony.
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:15:11 -0000, Anthony B. Coates (Google)
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have written a tool, using the XMLBeans Schema Object Model API, that
can be used to check the differences between versions of a set of W3C
XML Schemas. The tool can be run with Scala, Java, or Apache Ant. The
idea is that for each version, you create a fingerprint file that
contains paths (like XPaths, but with an extended syntax). By
comparing the two fingerprint files for two versions, you can see what
has changed between the versions of the Schemas.
How does this differ from just doing diffs of the individual Schema
files
themselves? The difference is that the path-based approach shows you
not
only what has changed, but also shows all of the places that are
directly
or indirectly impacted by the change. Also, the path-based approach
ignores restructurings that don't impact users, like renaming of Schema
types or moving of definitions to a different Schema file. Put another
way, the path-based approach allows you to evaluate how the Schemas have
changed from a user-impact perspective, rather than from a simple
file-change perspective.
The software is open source, released under the Apache licence. For
more
details, and to download it, see
http://www.xmlzebra.com/
There will be a presentation about this software at the XML Prague 2010
conference, 13-14 March.
http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/index.html
Feedback would be very welcome. Thanks,
Cheers, Tony.
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