Looking at xmlforms and schematron more closely, I'm starting to wonder why this combination was chosen anyways? from the examples
it seems the purpose of schematrons is to validate input fields, but checking
something simple as if a field is only alpha characters seems to be near impossible or atleast really hard with schematron (or am I missing something
here ? )
There have been heavy discussions. You might find some in the archives.
Isn't schematron intended for checking document structure, not validity of single fields/elements ?
Well, you can use it for both. But you have to use XSLT functions for content validity. See the XSLT pages/mailing list for help on the functions.
and if anyone does have a simple idea of how to do a simple check with schematron for alpha or non alpha strings ( 'test' is good, 'test1' or 'test#' is bad ) I'd be very gratefull for that too :)
Sorry, I personally dislike schematron and don't use it - so I don't have anything at hand :) But you might wanna have a look into the
"translate" function
--
Torsten
