XCSL - XML Constraint Specification Language

This language represents a side effect of a bigger project.

We decided to put this page online because this language can be very useful in certain contexts.

All the information available on this page is completely free I just ask you to include a short reference about its where abouts.

I decided to make available and to maintain only the latest version I produced so far, V2.2. However all the published examples will work with the tools that are available for download on this page.

Use it and tell me what you think about it or your suggestions.

Aims and Use

Does the Schema you are using meet all your needs?

Do you want only a small set of validations with no Schema at all?

Do you simply not want a Schema?

USE XCSL!

Resources

Online tutorial and help (available but still under construction).
PowerPoint Presentation given at XML Europe'2001.
PDF version of the article in the XML Europe'2001 CDROM.
HTML version of the article in the XML Europe'2001 CDROM.
Students example: XML file, XCSL file, generated XSL stylesheet.
Linguistics example: XML file, XCSL file, generated XSL stylesheet.
DataBase (XDBML) example: XML file, XCSL file, generated XSL stylesheet.
csl2-2.dtd DTD file for XCSL version 2.2.
xcsl-gen.pl perl style sheet generator for version 2.2 (you need to have installed XML::Parser and XML::DT).

Last update: 2001.05.28