The Usefulness of XML Schemas
Brian Jones has an interesting post about the use of XML schemas in the new Office 12. There are basically two different types of schema available: reference and custom.
The reference schema is the the XML that defines the style and look of a document. As Brian states this can obviously be useful in archiving documents over a long time and maintaining an attractive design across documents and managing those documents.
The second schema is the custom schema. This type of schema can be used to tag or “mark-up” the document to identify that different types of information that’s located in a document. Brian’s example uses items like identifying the date of a meeting, the attendees of the meeting, and a summary.
My question is how easy it is to setup these relationships in the XML? In Brian’s example, he suggests that the usefulness would be that I could search for a specific attendee and build a report for the dates of every meeting that attendee was a part of and the summary of the meeting discussion.
Obviously for that to occur, every document would have to be setup identically. How easy is it to apply these tags for the information and is it a completely manual process like applying a style to a document in existing versions of Word?
Source: Custom Defined Schemas by Brian Jones
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