xmlLegal Schema Framework Reference Documents (Free) is an in-depth look at the <xmlLegal> Schema Framework that describes four example XML Schema and XML instance documents, sometimes called "reference documents." The reference documents include a state police complaint, a juvenile complaint, and a case count report and can be found on this website. The website includes source documents, output documents, XML, XML Schema, schema documentation, data dictionaries, and an example schema repository.

In 1998, the questions in the court, justice and legal communities were, "What is XML?" and "Should I use it four court xml and justice xml solutions?" The community was skeptical about the then new and unfamiliar technology and the proponents who advocated its use. By 2000, the community viewed XML as an acceptable, indeed, desirable information exchange technology. By 2001, the question turned to, "Should I use a DTD or XML Schema?" This question has not fully resolved itself in groups that discuss such questions. There is no doubt, however, since 2002, there has been an increase in use of W3C XML Schema ("XML Schema" or "XML Schemas"). XML Schemas are used in the <xmlLegal>Schema Framework, the California Second Generation Electronic Filing Specifications ("2GEFS"), the Global Justice XML Data Model ("GJXDM"), and the Open XML Court Interface ("OXCI"), and the Department of Navy's XML Naming and Design Rules, to name only a few technologies and projects.

XML Data Binding: Code Generation from XML Schema (Free) discusses background about code generation and then asks and answers, "What is code generation?" "Should I use a code generator?" "Are some code generators better than others?"

Issues with the Justice XML Data Dictionary ('JXDD') (Free) is a follow-up article to an article in the November issue of the e-Filing Report that summarized the Georgia Courts Automation Commission ("GCAC") Juvenile and Child Support Electronic Court Filing Projects (Free). The first article pointed out that in the Juvenile Project, filers submit XML documents (within a Legal XML Court Filing 1.0 filing envelope) rather than "dumb document formats," such as Word, Word Perfect, PDF, or TIFF documents. The question has been raised, are the Juvenile XML documents based on JXDD and if not, why not? This article answers the two-part question by listed and describing eighteen issues with JXDD (now called Global Justice XML Data Model ('GJXDM')).

Service Oriented Architecture ("SOA") can be implemented with Web Services, XML, CORBA, EJB, DLLs, and other technologies. Interest in SOA Services has been renewed in integration solutions, such as integrated justice, by the success of Web Services. Designing applications as SOA Services, however, requires a change in mindset on the part of those designing applications. This white paper (Free) focuses on the difference in mindset required by SOA.

Service Oriented Architecture ('SOA') White Paper

Department of Navy XML Naming and Design Rules (Free) is an introduction to the Department of Navy ("DON") XML Naming and Design Rules, Version 2.0 ("NDR"), published January 2005. You may be familiar with the Department of Justice's ("DOJ") Global Justice XML Data Model ("GJXDM") and the <xmlLegal> Schema Framework. To provide context to the NDR, this article compares the NDR, GJXDM, and the Schema Framework, where applicable.

Part 1 of this article provides background on the DON NDR. Part 2 overviews the philosophies and rules embodied in the NDR and compares important features with GJXDM and the Schema Framework. This article compares how difference justice organizations approach solutions for legal xml.

Fixing the Global Justice XML Data Model ('GJXDM') (Free) is the third article in a series discussing the use of XML in court and justice applications. The first article (Free), published in the November 2003 issue of the e-Filing Report, summarized the Georgia Courts Automation Commission ("GCAC") Juvenile and Child Support Electronic Court Filing Projects. The first article pointed out that in the Juvenile Project, filers submit XML documents rather than "dumb document formats." The second article, published in the December/January issue, asked and answered whether the Georgia Juvenile XML documents were based on the Office of Justice Programs Justice XML Data Dictionary ("JXDD"). The second article stated that the XML documents were not based on JXDD and went on to detail a number of issues with JXDD. This article discusses how JXDD's issues can be fixed. This article also compares and contrasts JXDD with the <xmlLegal> Schema Framework in an effort to show how the two works are complementary, not competitive.