Design and Evaluation of a Generic Method for Creating XML Schema

There are many tutorials and materials for learning XML syntax and how to declare elements in XML schemas. There is however no formal method to develop the schemas themselves. A consequence of this lack of method is that the development of schemas has not kept inline with the other advances in software development. The aim of this paper is to address this gap and create a schema development framework inline with both current schema development research and development methodologies. The validity of the framework was verified using case study, which ultimately demonstrated the success of this methodology.