Why is xCBL available in so many formats?
The xCBL component libraries are originally designed and written in SOX (Schema for Object-Oriented XML, click here for more information) and this is the canonical form of xCBL. They are then converted, using XSLT transformations, into several other XML formats; this is done to allow for use by as many systems and tools as possible. The XSDL (XML Schema Definition Language) schemas are the most recent addition to xCBL.org. This is the XML Schema language designed by the W3C (Click here for more information on XSDL). It became a recommendation in May 2001. Support for this standard is rapidly becoming widespread and it is expected to become the language for creating XML document definitions, we currently supply two XSDL formats, modularised and grouped into single-file-per-root (this is due to the fact that some XML tools still don’t support include tags fully, click here for more details). There are still many systems which don’t support SOX or XSDL, however, so we also provide both XD
