Building Modular XML Schemas

This is a good article hosted at IBM on building modular schemas. It includes practical tips that will help you avoid the pitfalls of creating schemas that are too "quick and dirty."

XML Apologies

Kurt Cagle has written a great post at XML.com regarding the strengths and weaknesses of everyone's favorite declarative "meta-language." Here is an excerpt:

I think a part of the reason that people continue to insist on trying to encode things in XML that don’t belong there is that they have been trained that there is one and only one paradigm to data modeling - the Object Oriented Programming model.

When Good XML Goes Bad

XML.com recently published an article titled "Bad XML." It is a good read for those of you that are interested in markup design. In SIF I think we do a fairly good job of not creating "Bad XML," but there is definitely room for improvement. Here is the link to the article.