FW: [OAI-implementers] ABOUT & Schemas & metadataPrefix

[lagoze@cs.cornell.edu]

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Lagoze 
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:00 AM
To: 'Joe Futrelle'
Subject: RE: [OAI-implementers] ABOUT & Schemas & metadataPrefix


Hi Joe,

There is a nice product that runs on windows called xml spy at
http://www.xmlspy.com/.  I've used it for conversions (and lots of other
xml stuff).

Carl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Futrelle [mailto:futrelle@ncsa.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:03 PM
> To: oai-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [OAI-implementers] ABOUT & Schemas & metadataPrefix
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:45:50PM -0700, Hussein Suleman wrote:
> > > Does anybody know of a "Howto" for writing OAI schemas, I 
> really don't want
> > > to spend hours trawling through the incomprehensibility 
> of w3c just to make
> > > a few tweaks?
> > 
> > OAI schemas are not particularly special ... so you can just look at
> > whats generally out there on schemas (which, alas, isnt 
> much) ... ive
> > found that reading and working from the "XML schema part 0: 
> primer" is
> > sufficient ... 
> 
> Are there tools that will convert an existing XML DTD into an
> XML-Schema description?  That would be a good jumpstart for us.
> 
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