As I've said, XML Schema lets you declare an element in an XML document to be of a particular type, allowing the parser to validate the content of a document as well as its structure. XML Schema ...

XML can be used to define the document structure and content — not just the look and feel. By doing so, XML separates a document’s content from its presentation, thereby enabling developers to access ...

Read the whole “Validation with Java and XML Schema” series: Part 1. ... Here, “typing criteria” means basic data constraints such as data type, range, and allowed values.