ISO/IEC 19757-2 RELAX-NG (REgular LAnguage for XML)

This is a home for user information related to the International Standard for document modeling using a pattern to describe the structure and content of an XML document. The pattern is specified using a regular tree grammar. RELAX-NG is Part 2 of ISO/IEC 19757 DSDL (Document Schema Definition Languages) http://www.dsdl.org.

Specification documents (from the ISO/IEC page of Freely Available Standards):

• ZIP - XML Syntax

• ZIP - Compact Syntax

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 home page (current development):

• http://www.jtc1sc34.org

OASIS development project (the precursor to international standardization):

• http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/

Eric van der Vlist - RELAX NG book.

David Tolpin - incelim takes a Relax NG grammar in XML syntax, expands all includes and externalRefs, and optionally replaces references to text, empty, or notAllowed with the patterns. The result is a 'compiled' schema convenient for distribution.

James Clark's early work home page (the precursor to OASIS development):

• http://relaxng.org/ (last updated 2003-09-24)