A language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in linked XML documents.

Overview

What Makes Schematron Unique?

Who Uses Schematron?

What is Schematron used for?

NEWS: Schematron has helped our fight against COVID: in the US, real-time data on Emergency Medical admissions and causes is collected by National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS). Schematron has allowed them a practical route to having subject-matter experts specify rules in plain English, then developers implement exactly those rules. Read their excellent Schematron Guide, or see their online Library of national and state-level Schematron Rules. (Hint: try “PA”)

Open Source Implementations

Implementation

Open Standard

Open Licensing

In the long run, I think Schematron may well be the XML project’s greatest technical legacy to the world.
Simon St Laurent, Technical Journalist and O’Reilly Editor, xml-DEV list, 19 May 2016

Community

On Hold: Open Documentation and Tutorial

Schematron Topics

Pesky Humans

Fundamental Concepts

Understanding Assertions

Performance

Document Metrics and Testing

Converting XML Schemas to Schematron

Software

Schematron extended

Beyond Schematron

RAN 乱 - a modernized XML for parallel parsing

Apatak - streaming validation of arbitrary segments

Feature Grammars - a little language for feature extraction

PRESTO - all documents; each grain; any formats; every URL

Thought patterns and schema languages

XML beyond XML

Schema Languages real and imagined

Computer Languages, Libraries