XML-Data Reduced (XDR) is a discontinued schema language for specifying and validating
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...
documents.
In January 1998,
Microsoft
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, the
University of Edinburgh
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and others submitted a proposal for an XML schema language called XML-Data to the World Wide Web Consortium. XML-Data Reduced was a subset of XML-Data, with some corrections and amendments submitted in July 1998.
The
XML Schema
An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself. These constrai ...
effort in the
World Wide Web Consortium
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(W3C) received several other proposals, and while the final result has some similarities to the XML-Data proposal, it is significantly different. XDR was implemented in
SQL Server 2000 and
BizTalk
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Server 2000. Once the XML Schema Definition was finalized in 2001, Microsoft products and tools added support for it, and XDR was gradually phased out.
Microsoft XML Core Services provided XDR schema support from versions 2.0 up to—but not including—version 6.0.
Version and Conformance
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See also
*XML Schema Language Comparison
An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself. These constrai ...
- Comparison of other XML Schema languages (not XDR).
*List of XML Schemas
This is a list of notable XML schemas in use on the Internet sorted by purpose. XML schemas can be used to create XML documents for a wide range of purposes such as syndication, general exchange, and storage of data in a standard format.
Bookmar ...
- list of XML schemas in use on the Internet sorted by purpose
External links
XDR Schema Data Types Reference
References
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