The FDD Interchange (FDDI) Schema.
Attributes common to all elements. Any element can have an optional
"id" attribute.
The extension mechanism allows us to place arbitrary attributes on any
element, but they must come from a different namespace.
Top level container for the XML fragment.
This can contain some number of either programs, projects or aspects
(but cannot be a mixture of these) and any number of extension
elements.
Programs are a way to aggregate Projects into a hierarchy. A program may
contain either some number of other programs or some number of projects
but not both.
In additional it may contain an optional progress element and any
number of extension elements.
A project is some number of aspects, where each aspect may be of a
different type. For example: UI, PD and SI aspects. It may also contain
an optional progress element and any number of extension elements.
Aspects are a "Feature Breakdown Structure" (FBS), which are a two-level
decomposed list of features and optionally the non-standard milestone
definitions to be used.
It may also contain an optional progress element and any number of
extension elements.
An aspect description is the set of milestone definitions and the
names of key concepts: subject area, business activity, feature,
milestone.
A milestone is defined by a name and effort, and may optionally
contain any number of extension elements.
This is the top level of the FBS, named "Subject Area" in a
standard project.
This is the second level in the FBS hierarchy, named "Business
Activity" in a standard project.
A feature is some small piece of client valued function.
Notes may contain the initials of who wrote them, and the date
entered.
In addition they may contain extension elements in a mixed content
model and the usual base attributes.
A milestone has a planned date, an optional actual date, and maybe
a derived status as well. It may optionally contain any number of
extension elements as well.
An enumerated type for "status" attributes, used on milestones and
progress elements.
A snapshot of the progress of "something": program, project, aspect,
subject, activity, or feature.
Most elements in the FDDI schema may contain any number of "extension"
elements. This is to allow additional, arbitrary data to be attached
to elements for purposes not specified by the interchange standard.
The contents of the extension elements is undefined. An "extender"
attribute must be present to hopefully ensure different extension
mechanisms do not clash with each other. What values should be used
to achieve this is not specified in this schema definition.