Profiling and testing within domains to facilitate document exchangeability

Increasingly today the trend emerges within several specific application domains of adopting standard metadata formats for codifying the documents and the files exchanged across applications and stakeholders of that domain. Given a stan- dard format and some additional constraints that may ap- ply to a specific community of user (localization of standard specifications), we then need ways for: i) deriving complying documents, and ii) testing the behaviour of services that process such documents. We have been investigating such issues in the e-learning and health domains. In this paper we mainly focus on the exchangeability of clinical documents and present an environment called Euclide currently under development, which is based on XML Schema specifications. Euclide will include the TAXI tool for the automated gener- ation from the specified XML Schema of XML instances, to be used for black-box testing of the applications that process the clinical documents codified by the generated instances.