| Birthplace: |
Academia Sinica Computing Centre |
| Age: |
2 years |
| Parents: |
XPath and Assertion Grammars |
| Type: |
Tree Pattern |
| Formalism: |
Assertion grammars; rule-based systems |
| Syntax: |
XML instance |
Uses a rule-based rather than grammar-based validation model
Can express nearly arbitrary constraints
Phases and abstract rules provide many modularity features
Supports versioned namespaces
Quite verbose
No default values