Examples

There are two kinds of examples provided on this site.

Book Examples: You can download all of the examples from the book or view them on this site using the chapter links below.

Additional Examples: Many of the examples in the book are concise in order to illustrate a particular point. I have received a number of requests for larger, more comprehensive instances and schemas that can be copied or used to test validation. You can separately download these larger examples based on selected chapters view them on this site using the chapter links below.

Chapter 1: Schemas: An introduction
Chapter 2: A quick tour of XML Schema
Chapter 3: Namespaces
Chapter 4: Schema composition
Chapter 5: Instances and schemas
Chapter 6: Element declarations
Chapter 7: Attribute declarations
Chapter 8: Simple types
Chapter 9: Regular expressions
Chapter 10: Union and list types
Chapter 11: Built-in simple types
Chapter 12: Complex types
Chapter 13: Deriving complex types
Chapter 14: Assertions
Chapter 15: Named groups
Chapter 16: Substitution groups
Chapter 17: Identity constraints
Chapter 18: Redefining and overriding schema components
Chapter 19: Topics for DTD users
Chapter 20: XML information modeling
Chapter 21: Schema design and documentation
Chapter 22: Extensibility and reuse
Chapter 23: Versioning