[oXygen-user] better validation of Schematron schema

[Wendell Piez]

Hi,

I second Lars' request for generally tighter validation of 
Schematron, especially when it comes to XPaths. This would really 
help tighten the development cycle.

It could be that converting the Schematron into XSLT for validation 
isn't necessary, if the editor could be aware of Schematron in a way 
similar to its awareness of XSLT ... in particular, that Schematron 
rule/@context and (assert|report)/@test attributes need to be XPath.

I suppose this is complicated by the fact that they don't ... a 
Schematron might have any of a number of queryBinding values at the 
top level. But presumably it makes sense for oXygen to validate only 
the query languages it actually supports.

Could oXygen be smart enought to check for XSLT 1.0 XPath when 
queryBinding="xslt" and XSLT 2.0 XPath when queryBinding="xslt2"?

To be really complete, it would also have to traverse Schematron 
include elements and even xsl:import or xsl:include elements (for 
those of us who mix XSLT in, and maintain XSLT functions in other modules).

Cheers,
Wendell


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