Namespaces and Includes

When working with XML and XML Schemas, Namespaces makes it a bit difficult. The main issue with Namespaces in my opinion is the difficulty in dealing with the prefix to the namespace uri mapping. The software used to generate Visual Schemas has been tested with several different standards (as can be seen from this blog [...]

Visual Schema For Election Markup Language (EML)

Right now I am watching Senator Barack Obama speaking in Minnesota on his successful winning of the required number of delegates for the nominations. Well, that has nothing to do with this post. But yes, the fact that this year the US Presidential Elections are going to happen has prompted me to look for XML [...]

XML Schema Annotation Documentation In Visual Schemas

Just like well commented code makes it easy to understand, XML Schemas can be augmented with comments as well. This is done using the documentation element within the annotation element. Annotation element can be part of many of the XML Schema constructs.
Visual Schema provided a way to visualize the XML Schema definitions. Now, Visual Schemas [...]

Visual Schema For Office 2003

A while back Microsoft has released xml schemas for their Office 2003 suite of products. Their download contains xml schemas for Microsoft Word, Spreadsheet, Visio and Project.
VisualSchema is pleased to announce Visual Schemas for Office 2003. Note that the visual schema is created only for Microsoft Project and not the other documents. This is [...]

Visual Schemas For Java EE XML Schemas

VisualSchema is pleased to offer Visual Schemas For Java EE XML Schemas.
Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) defines a few XML Schemas for the definition of web applications, tag libraries and few other that are part of the Java EE specifications.
Visual Schemas is built using Java, JSP, Xerces and a few other technologies. So, we are [...]

Visual Schemas For Amazon SimpleDB

Amazon SimpleDB is a special storage system optimized for certain class of problems. This service is certainly a welcome addition to the already existing Amazon Simple Storage. While Amazon Simple Storage is, as the name indicates, meant to store small and large files alike and that’s pretty much it and simple, SimpleDB is also simple, [...]

VisualSchemas For papiNet

papiNet has standards for paper and forest industry. VisualSchema is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Schemas for papiNet XML Schema standards.
I am going to soon write up how exactly the Visual Schema are created in more detail later on. But the thing to note is that the UI is all pre-generated static html [...]

Visual Schemas For NewsML

NewsML is “an XML-based standard to represent and manage news throughout its lifecycle, including production, interchange, and consumer use”.
VisualSchema is pleased to announce Visual Schemas For NewsML.

Visual Schemas For eBay Web Services

eBay claims 5.7 billion web service calls a month! I wouldn’t be surprised that in the future, the number of total web service calls to be more than the number of manual page views.
While people visit the web and create the web traffic to mostly view content (including email which is a major contributor), using [...]

Visual Schemas For E-Government Standards

Who knew that even whitehouse had xml standards! At
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/e-5-documents.html
I found
“Exhibit 300 Schema, Version 3.02 (for FY08)
This document is used to describe and define the type of content including the entities, attributes, elements and notation used for the submission of Exhibit 300s for the FY08 budget cycle.”
The schema definition is published for every year’s budget [...]