Document Models and XML Vocabulary Building for Business Users

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Document Models and XML Vocabulary Building for
Business Users
Douglas Lovell, Susan Spraragen, Bob Schloss IBM
Research
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TeX, DSSSL XSLT XSL-FO Enterprise XML Management
XSL Formatting Objects Developers Handbook SAMS
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Theres a paper. Please interrupt with questions.
http//www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/
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How do you design the structure for a document or
message?
How do you describe the data in your organization?
How do you develop a Schema?
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Business Analysts
Executives
Data Architects
Database Administrators
Data Analysts
Document Analysts
IT Architects
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Spreadsheets
UML
Word Processing Documents
Schema
Outlines
Paper
DTD
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Real user. real problem.
use- ability
useful function
usability
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Now wasnt that fun? Easy to make changes,
explore. Useful artifacts.
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I have a data field that can take one value from
a predefined, enumerated list of values
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ltxsdsimpleType name"ResponseType-Type"gt
ltxsdrestriction base"xsdanySimpleType"gt
ltxsdenumeration value"ContinuityOrder"/gt
ltxsdenumeration value"Refused"/gt
ltxsdenumeration value"SweepstakesOnly"/gt
ltxsdenumeration value"Stop"/gt
ltxsdenumeration value"MailOrder"/gt
ltxsdenumeration value"Undeliverable"/gt
ltxsdenumeration value"SubscriptionOrder
"/gt ltxsdenumeration
value"AddressChange"/gt
lt/xsdrestrictiongt lt/xsdsimpleTypegt
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• we made it accessible
• we found a real person with a real project
• debate about the thousand things for 100 schema
  coverage vs. the 10 of schema the user actually
  required.

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• not everybody thinks the same way
• kinds of, enumeration
• helping to get over the initial hurdle of
  creating a schema
• to the point that he started helping us change
  the interface to give hints to schema
• learning about XML Schema occurred through use of
  the tool

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• making data modeling more accessible can improve
  document and data design

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Document Models and XML Vocabulary Building for
Business Users
Douglas Lovell, Susan Spraragen, Bob Schloss IBM
Research