Balisage Paper: Customisation of Akoma Ntoso using Schematron
Geert Bormans
C-Moria BV
Geert Bormans has long been an angle-bracket jack-of-all-trades. He loves the beauty of a well-architected solution or a pure and simplified process. Geert makes a living as an independent consultant, through his company C-Moria BV, providing XML or Linked Open Data solutions, mainly to the publishing industry. He does so with a broad geographical flexibility.
Geert likes an interesting challenge, easily found when having two teenage daughters. However, he prefers the challenges to involve alpine ground, six strings, or markup.
Abstract
Akoma Ntoso, an Oasis Open standard for legal documents, is gaining popularity. Since the standard aims to cover a wide variety of legislative and parliamentary traditions, it is fairly broad and generic. Projects usualy start by customisation of the standard to a local tradition. Such a customisation is usualy achieved by generating a so called subschema through publicaly available tooling. This presentation shows an alternative approach for some common use cases using Schematron instead.