Looking at XSD

XSD has become a core part of many of the customers that I work with. Within these customers they are using XSD as a standard way of representing various enterprise objects. By defining a standard way to describe these objects using XSD they are able to manage and guarantee the various data formats. I was working with a customer the other day and they were interested in how they could create an extensible schema. They wanted to create a standard representation of their employees, but provide the way for each of their subsidiaries to extend (not change) the underlying structure. I am going to present three examples that show this. For ease of clarity I will use InfoPath. Of course, these same concepts can be extended to anything XSD compliant. More…