Dev:Common Concepts

Common concepts to all railML^® 2 schemas
 

Common is a pseudo subschema to cover general aspects or aspects interfering different subschemas. Some general concepts about handling railML files are summerized on the following wiki-sites:

• Conventions for railML files (file name extensions, compressed files, and other)
• Handling identities (id values)
• Local versus web-based validation (XML catalogs and XML namespaces)
• Versioning policy (version numbers, versioned XML namespaces)
• Officially released versus developer version (Homepage, Subversion)
• Attribute Syntax (Attribute delimiters, Character references)
• Using "xs:any" elements, "anyAttribute"s and "other:anything" enumeration values for enhancing the railML files with your special needs
• Using content libraries and fully validating without any error or warning messages
• Dev:Codelists
• Changes sorted by released versions