Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) is a framework within which multiple validation tasks of different types can be applied to an XML document in order to achieve more complete validation results than just the application of a single technology.

It is specified by the standard ISO/IEC 19757.

DSDL is a multipart standard defining a modular set of specifications for describing the document structures, data types, and data relationships in structured information resources.

• Part 0 Overview [1] (http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0275.htm)
• Part 1 Interoperability framework
• Part 2 Grammar-based validation - RELAX NG
• Part 3 Rule-based validation - Schematron
• Part 4 Namespace-based validation dispatching language - NVDL
• Part 5 Datatypes
• Part 6 Path-based integrity constraints
• Part 7 Character repertoire validation
• Part 8 Declarative document manipulation
• Part 9 Datatype- and namespace-aware DTD
• Part 10 Validation Management

See also

• RELAX NG
• Schematron
• DTD
• Namespace Routing Language
• W3C Schema

External links

• Home page for DSDL (http://dsdl.org/)