[eml-dev] EML-2.1.0 Release Candidate-3

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hi  -
The third release candidate is now tagged and available as  
RELEASE_EML_2_1_0_RC_3. It incorporates the fix of bug 3227 (typing 
gRing as GRingType). Sorry for not catching that one earlier.

All the junit tests passed.  The instructions for access using anonymous 
cvs checkout are here, and notes from the README are below. 
http://www.kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=DevelopmentForKepler
 
Cheers -
Margaret



HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS RELEASE
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This release addresses 2 bugs which caused the schema to be invalid with
respect to the W3C specifications using the XSV validator
(http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv). Although the changes were minor,
one was incompatible with 2.0 releases, which necessitated the version
number "2.1". In the 2.0 series, the content model for additionalMetadata
included an element <describes> whose cardinality was 0..many, alongside
<xs:any>. This construct is non-deterministic, and so a child element
was added to the additionalMetadata section to contain the <xs:any> content.
Additionally, several elements of txt:TypeText required additional
definition so that mixed content could be accommodated. These errors
were not apparent with validation software available in 2004-2005, but
were brought to light more recently. Several small changes were made to
the enumeration list and unitTypes for standard units and stmml descriptions
of customUnits. Two elements in the literature schema were allowed to be
optional so that articles-in-press could be described.  The named type for
element gRing was changed to GRingType. No changes were made to xsl
stylesheets.


BUGS FIXED AND NEW FEATURES (see also http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/)
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2.1.0 Changes - (numbers refer to the corresponding Bugzilla bug)
2054: added the <metadata> tag to additionalMetadata
2083: in stmml.xsd, dimension 'current' was wrongly entered as 'charge'
2703: refined element declarations in txt:TypeText for para, section; 
added ulink, citetitle
3051: missing units were added to exclusion list to match eml-unitDitionary
3163: in literature.xsd, cardinality of volume and pageRange now 0..1
3227: gRing is declared as GRingPointType, but should be GRingType


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Margaret O'Brien
Information Management
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER 
Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-6150

805-893-2071
mob at icess.ucsb.edu
http://sbc.lternet.edu
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