A rule-based validation language that checks relationships and project policy a schema cannot express, such as cross-element conditions. A schema checks shape. Schematron checks meaning: if this module is procedural, a warning must precede the step it concerns; if this code is used, that attribute is mandatory.

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Schematron

A rule-based validation language that checks relationships and project policy a schema cannot express, such as cross-element conditions.

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What Schematron Means

A schema checks shape. Schematron checks meaning: if this module is procedural, a warning must precede the step it concerns; if this code is used, that attribute is mandatory.

In S1000D terms this is the natural home of business-rule checking layered on top of the delivered schemas, which is exactly the role the BREX plays.

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XSD

The modern schema language: written in XML itself, namespace-aware, and able to declare that a value must be a date or a bounded number.

BREX

The data module that encodes a project's S1000D business rules in machine-checkable form, so conformance can be validated rather than reviewed by eye.

Business Rules

The decisions a program makes about everything its specification deliberately leaves open, from coding schemes to applicability to permitted content.

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