Architectural-form like validation with schemas?

Hello,
I need to validate documents with respect to multiple models; each model 
provides a partial description or view of a document instance; I guess 
archtiectural form validation (with meta-dtds) is what I need, but I am 
unaware of the status of architectural forms, whether they  are still 
widely used or considered a lost art.
Can you recommend me whether it's a good idea to use architectural forms 
today, or whether they have been superseded by some other mechanism 
developed in the schema community? Is there any namespace aware 
validating parser that can validate a document with respect to several 
schemas?

Many thanks,

Helka F.

Received on Saturday, 7 June 2003 09:51:00 UTC