The suggested approach still looks good, but I've run into a problem. It would appear that Xerces only supports the XPointer element scheme, not the full XPointer standard. In particular, the XPath scheme in XPointer is not supported. Is there an alternative XML parser that supports XML Schema, Sche...

Thanks so much, George, for your thoughtful and detailed reply! Very useful. It sounds like a good solution. I'll try it out and let you know how it works for me. I really appreciate your taking the time to lay it out so well.

- Brent

I am trying to figure out how to construct a set of Schematron files that work together. For example, where an abstract pattern can reside in one Schematron schema and can be invoked by a pattern in another schema. Or where a set of schemas can be processed against an instance document using a singl...