Yeah, though while it does make each subschema somewhat more readable and contained, you still don't get a good overview. If you're reading the spec for a given object, do you don't easily see where it's being used in the schema.
For now I've just supplied the JSON Schema as a self-contained thing, and deferred other parties to the XSD to get an overview. The self-contained makes it trivial to load into a validator and such.
So while it helps for knowing what to fill into that exact object, it doesn't help for getting a feel for the overall schema. This is where the visual view of tools such as XMLSpy really helps.
> lack of a good standard for schema repositories
Interesting, do you have something public to show? For our large ones I feel they'd be entirely custom anyway, but perhaps I can see standard sub-schemas useful for other tasks. Would be interesting to have a look.