XML Schema
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Adopt
Formal standard
W3C
Since 2001
Judgement: Adopt
The schema language for XML — load-bearing in enterprise integration, finance, healthcare, and government with mature tooling.
W3C standard for describing the structure, content, and constraints of XML documents.
Still the schema language of record in many enterprise integration scenarios — SOAP, banking, healthcare, and government.
At a glance
- Category
- Schema
- Governance
- W3C
- Status
- Stable since 2001
- First released
- 2001
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Schema.
- AVRO Schema — Apache Avro Schema
- JSON Schema
- Protobuf — Protocol Buffers
- SQL DDL — SQL Data Definition Language
- LinkML — Linked data Modeling Language
- Table Schema — Frictionless Table Schema
See XML Schema in context
Open the interactive Data Landscape to compare XML Schema against every other open standard, or grab the raw JSON. Spotted something wrong? Open an issue.