The XML Spec Schema and Stylesheets

Abstract

This document describes the various releases of the XML Spec schema and stylesheets.

What's New?

7 Sep 2011

Released Version 1.14 of the HTML and XHTML stylesheets.

Released Version 1.11 of the FO stylesheets.

13 Oct 2005

Released Version 2.10 of the XML Spec schema (in all three flavors).

Released Version 1.13 of the HTML and XHTML stylesheets.

Released Version 1.10 of the FO stylesheets.

06 May 2005

Released Version 2.9 of the XML Spec schema (in all three flavors).

Released Version 1.12 of the HTML and XHTML stylesheets.

18 Feb 2004

Released Version 2.8 of the XML Spec schema (in all three flavors).

Released Version 1.11 of the HTML and XHTML stylesheets.

25 Nov 2003

Released Version 2.7 of the XML Spec schema. This release is available in RELAX NG, W3C XML Schema, and DTD flavors. No markup changes have been introduced since V2.6.

Released Version 1.10 of the HTML and XHTML stylesheets.

29 Sep 2003

Released Version 2.6 of the XML Spec schema. This release is available in RELAX NG, W3C XML Schema, and DTD flavors. No markup changes have been introduced since V2.5.

11 Jul 2003

Released Version 2.5 of the XML Spec schema.

Released Version 1.9 of the HTML, XHTML, and FO stylesheets.

28 May 2003

Released Version 2.4 of the XML Spec schema.

11 Mar 2003

Released Version 2.3 of the XML Spec schema.

12 Feb 2003

Released Version 1.8 of the HTML and XHTML stylesheets.

The XML Spec Schema

The XML Spec schema is available as a DTD. The following versions are available:

Version 2.10, released 13 Oct 2005.
This release is available as a RELAX NG Grammar (or in the compact syntax), a W3C XML Schema, or a DTD.

This version supports the pubrules changes that allow multiple latest locations. If the latestloc element contains more than one loc element, then each loc identifies the header. For example:
```
<latestloc>
<loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/">Latest MathML 2 version:</loc>
<loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML/">Latest MathML Recommendation:</loc>
</latestloc>
```
As a consequence of this change, the content model of latestloc has been reduced to loc+. This is backwards-incompatible but consistent with existing practice, I believe. If it causes problems, let me know.
Version 2.9, released 06 May 2005.
This release is available as a RELAX NG Grammar (or in the compact syntax), a W3C XML Schema, or a DTD.

This version supports the new W3C document type “review” for identifying “Editor's Drafts”.
Version 2.8, released 18 Feb 2004.
This release is available as a RELAX NG Grammar (or in the compact syntax), a W3C XML Schema, or a DTD.

This version supports the new W3C document types "wgnote", "memsub", and "teamsub".
Version 2.7, released 25 Nov 2003.
This release is available as a RELAX NG Grammar (or in the compact syntax), a W3C XML Schema, or a DTD.

This version reverts to a DTD-primary view. While the DTD, RNG, and XSD forms will continue to be maintained in parallel, there are too many customization layers of the DTD that rely on parameter entities not preserved by the RNG to DTD transformation to really make the RNG form the primary source.

There are no technical (markup) changes in V2.6.
Version 2.6, released 29 Sep 2003.
This release is available as a RELAX NG Grammar (or in the compact syntax), a W3C XML Schema, or a DTD.

As of this version, the RELAX NG Grammar is the source, all other forms are generated from it. There are no technical (markup) changes in V2.6.
Version 2.5, released 11 Jul 2003
This version adds a preverrataloc element and a translationloc element to the header. It also adds an rfc2119 element for marking RFC 2119 keywords.
Version 2.4, released 28 May 2003
This version adds an errataloc element to the header (between the authlist and the copyright). It also allows explicitly numbered productions and works around a bug in the DTD parser in IE.
Version 2.3, released 11 Mar 2003
This version contains some internal changes that make customization layers easier to write. It also contains some changes designed to improve support for generating "diff" versions of specifications. There are no important user-visible changes in this release.
Version 2.2.
This version supports the "altlocs" element which is necessary to satisfy the latest pubrules.

The altlocs element appears in the header immediately after the publoc element. It contains one or more loc elements.

The only other changes in this release are the addition of a couple of local attribute parameter entities and marked section parameter entities around every element and attribute list declaration. This will greatly ease the construction of customization layers.
Version 2.1.
This version is described by the Guide to the W3C XML Specification DTD.
Version 2.0.
This version is for historical interest only. Use 2.2 instead.

The XML Spec Stylesheets

The XML Spec Stylesheets are XSLT stylesheets for converting instances of the XML Spec DTD into HTML, XHTML, or PDF.

HTML

These stylesheets produce HTML. For best results, you may still need to run the results through tidy. Using tidy with indentation turned off general saves a little space on the servers.

HTML Version 1.14, released 7 Sep 2011.
Replaced ercim.org with ercim.eu in order to pass pubrules
HTML Version 1.13, released 13 Oct 2005.
This version supports multiple latest locations and fixes the bug where items in an ordered list did not have ID values in the HTML produced.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.12, released 06 May 2005.
This version supports publishing “Editor's Drafts”. If either the w3c-doctype attribute on spec is “review” or the w3c-doctype element in the header contains the phrase “Editor”, the resulting draft will be styled according to the guidelines for group-internal drafts.

This version also produces documents with an encoding of utf-8, which is now the default for documents published in TR space.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.11, released 18 Feb 2004.
This version includes a few small updates and produces HTML that conforms to the current pubrules.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.10, released 25 Nov 2003.
This version includes the following updates:
- Make anchors for examples
- Check internal links created with loc
- Use CSS for ordered list numeration style
- Removed content-type meta tag
- Allow specref to olist/item
- Allow specref to example
Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.9, released 11 Jul 2003.
This version supports the changes to V2.5 of the schema.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.8, released 12 Feb 2003.
This version adds newlines to the Table of Contents.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.7, released 30 Jan 2003.
This version fixes a simple typo in the revised copyright boilerplate.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.6, released 09 Jan 2003.
This version passes role attributes on phrases through to the HTML as class attributes on spans. It also uses the new copyright boilerplate.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.5, released 08 Nov 2002.
This version wasn't previously published. It cleaned up some parameters and code used by customization layers. Use 1.6 instead..

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
HTML Version 1.4, released 03 Sep 2002.
This version fixes a bug in the processing of slist elements and refactors support for the "altlocs" element.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.

XHTML

These stylesheets produce XHTML. For best results, you may still need to run the results through tidy. Using tidy with indentation turned off general saves a little space on the servers.

XHTML Version 1.14, released 7 Sep 2011.
Replaced ercim.org with ercim.eu in order to pass pubrules
XHTML Version 1.13, released 13 Oct 2005.
This version supports multiple latest locations and fixes the bug where items in an ordered list did not have ID values in the HTML produced.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" HTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" HTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.12, released 06 May 2005.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.12. Where 1.12 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.11, released 18 Feb 2004.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.11. Where 1.11 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.10, released 25 Nov 2003.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.10. Where 1.10 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.9, released 11 Jul 2003.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.9. Where 1.9 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.8, released 12 Feb 2003.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.8. Where 1.8 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML. This version does not generate the bogus <meta> element that specifies the ISO-8859-1 character set.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.7, released 30 Jan 2003.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.7. Where 1.7 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML. By default, this version now produces UTF-8 instead of ISO Latin 1.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.6, released 09 Jan 2003.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.6. Where 1.6 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.5, released 08 Nov 2002.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.5. Where 1.5 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.
XHTML Version 1.4, released 03 Sep 2002.
This is a mechanically generated alternative to version 1.4. Where 1.4 produces HTML, this version produces XHTML.

Also available: diffspec.xsl, a stylesheet that produces "color-coded" XHTML from diff markup in the XML document and slices.xsl (plus slices-common.xsl), a stylesheet that produces "chunked" XHTML specifications.

XSL Formatting Objects

These stylesheets produce FO documents that can be transformed into PDF (and other print formats) with an appropriate XSL FO processor (see the XSL page for more details).

FO Version 1.11, released 7 Sep 2011.
Replaced ercim.org with ercim.eu in order to pass pubrules
FO Version 1.10 (plus pagesetup.xsl), released 13 Oct 2005.
This version supports multiple latest locations and supports a few additional targets for specref cross references (items in an ordered list and examples).
FO Version 1.9 (plus pagesetup.xsl), released 11 Jul 2003.
This version supports the changes to V2.5 of the schema.

Note: there never was a 1.7 or 1.8 release.
FO Version 1.6 (plus pagesetup.xsl), released 09 Jan 2003.
This version uses the new copyright boilerplate..

This version produces XSL Formatting Objects, suitable for generating PDF and other print formats.
FO Version 1.4 (plus pagesetup.xsl), released 03 Sep 2002.
This version uses url() appropriately in references to external graphics and has refactored support for the "altlocs" element.

This version produces XSL Formatting Objects, suitable for generating PDF and other print formats.

Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
Last Modified: $Date: 2011/09/07 14:47:11 $

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