Document Analysis: An Introduction

(2-hr introductory seminar)

Document models (expressed in narrative form and as DTDs or schemas) are the heart of all XML applications. Document models play a crucial communication role in an XML implementation, telling both people and software how your information is labelled and organized.

Document analysis is the information gathering process that allows you to create a document model of your own or to decide that an existing model will work for your documents.

This seminar explains the role of the document model in an XML implementation, and describes a step-by-step approach to document analysis with attention to design goals such as retrieval, multiple publications, and affordable implementation.

• How XML works
• Role of the document model
• Participation in document analysis
  • Experts on your content
  • Users of the content
  • XML experts
• The document analysis process
  • Requirements and scope
  • Naming and defining elements
  • Defining information relationships
  • Defining constraints
  • Enriching the collection

Prerequisites: Participants need to be involved in some aspect of the publishing process. No XML syntax knowledge is required.