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[March 24, 2003] Schema Unit Test (SUT) Framework for Testing XML Schema. Gavin Kingsley (Invensys Energy Systems Limited) announced the availability of a SourceForge project Schema Unit Test (SUT) which introduces a framework for testing XML Schema. SUT incorporates the Schematron reference implementation developed by Rick Jelliffe of the Academia Sinica Computing Centre. Problem statement: "W3C Schema can quickly become complex and difficult to determine if they are validating the correct vocabulary. The addition of embedded Schematron schema only makes this problem worse... The SUT framework has two parts. The first is a namespace and vocabulary for embedding test cases into sample XML documents, designed to highlight what is legal and what is not legal in the vocabulary defined in the schema under test. This aspect is independent of what schema language is used and can in theory be applied to any schema language with automatic validation tools. The second part is a Java implementation using JUnit for testing a W3C Schema with embedded Schematron schema. This implementation reads SUT test suite descriptions written in XML with embedded test cases and then creates a JUnit test suite that can be executed inside JUnit in the usual way. Although SUT is written to use JUnit, no specialise Java or JUnit knowledge is required to run SUT test suites. An example is provided based on the purchase order schema from the W3C primer... A SUT Test Suite is a well-formed XML file containing an example of a file to be validated. Test cases are identified by additional elements in the SUT namespace, http://www.powerware.com/nz/XMLSchemaUnitTest. The case element identifies test cases created by adding or removing elements. The attribute element identifies test cases created by adding, removing or changing attributes; detailed descriptions of these elements are available (case; attribute)." SUT has free, open source code. General references in "XML Schemas."
[March 11, 2003] New Book on XML Data Management. Book announcement: XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems, by Akmal Chaudhri, Awais Rashid, and Roberto Zicari. Addison Wesley, 2003. ISBN: 0201844524. 688 pages. The book is divided into five parts each containing a coherent and closely related set of chapters; these are self-contained and can be read in any order: Introduction; Native XML Databases; XML and Relational Databases; Applications of XML; Performance and Benchmarks. Topics covered include: (1) The power of good grammar and style in modeling information to alleviate the need for redundant domain knowledge; (2) Tamino's XML storage, indexing, querying, and data access features; (3) The features and APIs of open source eXist; (4) Berkeley DB XML's ability to store XML documents natively; (5) IBM's DB2 Universal Database and its support for XML applications; (6) Xperanto's method of addressing information integration requirements; (7) Oracle's XMLType for managing document centric XML documents; (8) Microsoft SQL Server 2000's support for exporting and importing XML data; (9) A generic architecture for storing XML documents in a relational database; (10) X007, XMach-1, XMark, and other benchmarks for evaluating XML database performance. The Preface and Chapter 1 ("Information Modeling with XML") are available online. See also the online Table of Contents. General references: "XML and Databases."
