Editing Schematron (section)

== Versions ==
Schematron was invented by [[Rick Jelliffe]] while at [[Academia Sinica]] Computing Centre, Taiwan. He described Schematron as "a [[feather duster]] to reach the parts other schema languages cannot reach".

The most common versions of Schematron are:
* Schematron 1.0 (1999)
* Schematron 1.3 (2000): This version used the namespace ''http://xml.ascc.net/schematron/''. It was supported by an XSLT implementation with a plug-in architecture.
* [http://xml.ascc.net/schematron/ Schematron 1.5] (2001): This version was widely implemented and can still be found.
* [http://xml.ascc.net/resource/schematron/Schematron2000.html Schematron 1.6] (2002): This version was the base of ISO Schematron and obsoleted by it.
* [http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html ISO Schematron] (2006): This version regularizes several features, and provides an XML output format, Schematron Validation Report Language (SVRL).<ref>{{Citation |series=Information technology — Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) |title=Part 3: Rule-based validation — Schematron (ISO/IEC 19757-3:2006) |date=2006-06-01 | publisher=ISO/IEC | format=zip | url=http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c040833_ISO_IEC_19757-3_2006%28E%29.zip|accessdate=2014-06-15}}</ref> It uses the new namespace ''http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron''.
* ISO Schematron (2010)
* ISO Schematron (2016): This version added support for XSLT2.
* ISO Schematron (2020): This version added support for XSLT3.