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Oct. 15, 2005 - xsddoc 1.0 released

The xframe team is pleased to announce release 1.0-beta of the sub project xsddoc.

The xsddoc subproject of xframe is an Open Source documentation tool for W3C XML Schema based on XSLT and XalanJ. With xsddoc you can generate documentation of your XML Schema in a JavaDoc like visualisation.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 1.0 compared to Release to 0.8-beta:

New features:

  • Xalan updated to Release 2.7.0

Fixes for the following bugs:

  • 1228808 Question about ant task when using FileSets
  • 1307377 Correction for Task.java to address FileSet issues
  • 1214556 xsddoc, java.lang.StackOverflowError
  • 1228804 Patch to xml2html.xsl to change end-of-sentence matching

Apr. 24, 2005 - xsddoc 0.8 beta released

The xframe team is pleased to announce release 0.8-beta of the sub project xsddoc.

The xsddoc subproject of xframe is an Open Source documentation tool for W3C XML Schema based on XSLT and XalanJ. With xsddoc you can generate documentation of your XML Schema in a JavaDoc like visualisation.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 0.7-beta compared to Release to 0.7-beta:

New features:

  • New command-line and Apache Ant argument: -cf (create out folder if missing)
  • New command-line and Apache Ant argument: -launch (launch documentation in browser)
  • Nested Elements Detail section removed (didn't provide any information)
  • maven-plugin: exclude property
  • maven-plugin: load schema thru proxy

Fixes for the following bugs:

  • 1151806 Duplicate message output on all errors and warnings
  • 1151805 Short documentation missing in namespace summary
  • 1151802 @type ref to included schema not shown
  • 1151800 Nested element summary
  • 1151799 Attributes of base type of restriction not included
  • 1151790 imported from redefined not in overview pages
  • 1151295 xsddoc generates broken links
  • 1123251 maven plugin can't find xalan
  • 1089703 [maven-xsddoc-plugin] fails if maven.xsddoc.src not present
  • 1084493 invalid href in source: element references
  • 1082836 missing namespace refs on summary if only redefineds
  • 1082834 circular loop with redefined attribute groups
  • 1045819 Cyclic includes in XSDs cause xsddoc to fail

Feb. 26, 2005 - xsddoc 0.7 beta released

The xframe team is pleased to announce release 0.7-beta of the sub project xsddoc.

The xsddoc subproject of xframe is an Open Source documentation tool for W3C XML Schema based on XSLT and XalanJ. With xsddoc you can generate documentation of your XML Schema in a JavaDoc like visualisation.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 0.7-beta compared to Release to 0.6-beta:

New features:

  • Support external CSS file
  • continue on error
  • maven-plugin: exclude property
  • maven-plugin: load schema thru proxy

Fixes for the following bugs:

  • 1151806 Duplicate message output on all errors and warnings
  • 1151805 Short documentation missing in namespace summary
  • 1151802 @type ref to included schema not shown
  • 1151800 Nested element summary
  • 1151799 Attributes of base type of restriction not included
  • 1151790 imported from redefined not in overview pages
  • 1151295 xsddoc generates broken links
  • 1123251 maven plugin can't find xalan
  • 1089703 [maven-xsddoc-plugin] fails if maven.xsddoc.src not present
  • 1084493 invalid href in source: element references
  • 1082836 missing namespace refs on summary if only redefineds
  • 1082834 circular loop with redefined attribute groups
  • 1045819 Cyclic includes in XSDs cause xsddoc to fail

Oct. 8, 2004 - xsddoc 0.6 beta released

The xframe team is pleased to announce release 0.6-beta of the sub project xsddoc.

The xsddoc subproject of xframe is an Open Source documentation tool for W3C XML Schema based on XSLT and XalanJ. With xsddoc you can generate documentation of your XML Schema in a JavaDoc like visualisation.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 0.6-beta compared to Release to 0.5-beta:

New features:

  • Support cameleon schema
  • documentation for nestedd element declarations (nested elements summary and details)

Support cameleon schema

Fixes for the following bugs:

  • 1015389 documentation of nested element incomplete
  • 1015385 cameleon design not supported
  • 1012887 wrong model when using group with xs:all
  • 1002228 Patches for XSDDoc
  • 997004 "null" if target folder doesn't exist
  • 991049 missing components in namespace-overview
  • 991020 filesets: cannot resolve schema locations
  • 990990 Duplicate global variable declaration in component.xsl
  • 986150 cyclic include of xsd files aborts the doc generation
  • 978542 Invalid link to simpleType documentation
  • 978539 Some annotations lost

Jun. 20, 2004 - xsddoc 0.5 beta released

The xframe team is pleased to announce the release 0.5-beta of the sub project xsddoc.

The xsddoc subproject of xframe is an Open Source documentation tool for W3C XML Schema based on XSLT and XalanJ. With xsddoc you can generate documentation of your XML Schema in a JavaDoc like visualisation.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 0.5-beta compared to Release to 0.4-beta:

Fixes for the following bugs:

  • 972508 simpleType link vs. complexType link
  • 972042 DOS line feeds in UNIX shell scripts
  • 972041 type: XSDOC_HOME instead of XSDDOC_HOME
  • 970755 Multiple links to elements
  • 965887 TransformerEx.: ElemTemplateElement-Error: namespaceFolder
  • 957268 circular import
  • 954796 attributes detail: Form unqualified1
  • 949282 Duplicate global variable declaration exception
  • 943687 local Attr. decl. within complexContent missing in model doc
  • 942908 incomplete overview if targetNamespace empty
  • 939335 Missing details in the "Attribute Detail" sections
  • 939137 include external schema
  • 939135 warnings when building the stress sample
  • 937584 xsddoc: elements don't appear
  • 937583 typo (nit)
  • 936225 model documentation of local simple type attributes

Apr. 21, 2004 - new xsddoc Sample: XHTML 1.0 (Second Edition) Strict

XHTML 1.0 (Second Edition) Strict.

Apr. 1, 2004 - xsddoc 0.4 beta released

The xframe team is pleased to announce the first beta release of the sub project xsddoc, a documentation tool for W3C XML Schema.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 0.4-beta compared to Release to 0.3-beta:

  • Support multiple schemas
  • Content model and attributes documentation
  • Fixes for all bugs reported until 31.03.2004

xsddoc-0.3-alpha can be downloaded from here.

Dec. 1, 2003 - xsddoc 0.3 alpha released

The xframe team is pleased to announce the third alpha release of the sub project xsddoc, a documentation tool for W3C XML Schema.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 0.3 compared to Release to 0.2:

  • Bugfix: Command line utitliy idependent of Apache Ant
  • Many bugfixes regarding references between schema components
  • Bugfix for schemas using default namespace as targetNamespace.
  • Intermediate XML format in component processing introduced
  • Revised documentation on our xsddoc page

We expected this release to be the first beta release, but due to the many changes we decided to keep alpha status till end of this year. We need more time for exhaustive test on several operating systems as well as with different JDK's and different version of XalanJ, maby also with other XSLT processors. As soon as we have a reached a consistent state without any major open bugs, we will got to beta phase

xsddoc-0.3-alpha can be downloaded from here.

Nov. 5, 2003 - xsddoc 0.2 alpha released

The xframe team is pleased to announce the second alpha release of the sub project xsddoc, a documentation tool for W3C XML Schema.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in Release 0.2 compared to Release to 0.1:

  • Apache Ant Task for xsddoc
  • xslt files as resource
  • simplified installation
  • a first brief documentation on our xsddoc page
  • several bugs fixed like "file not found" and simmilar configuration problems

xsddoc-0.2-alpha can be downloaded from here.

Oct. 20, 2003 - xsddoc 0.1 alpha released

The xframe team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the sub project xsddoca, W3C XML Schema documentation tool.

This Announcement notes the significant changes in 0.1 compared to 0.0.3.

  • full unix support
  • command line interface
  • Apache Ant replaced by a small java class
  • and much better performance by caching all xml and xslt files

xsddoc-0.1-alpha can be downloaded from here

Oct. 20, 2003 - release 0.0.3 of the xsddoc subproject

We are getting close to a quite stable alpha version of the xsddoc subproject, our XML-Schema documentation tool. We have changed the layout to the look and feel of JavaDoc and included many fixes and extensions on sub- and super-types and cross-references. The tool is currently fully based on Apache ant and XSLT. Before we move to alpha status, we want to do some more testing on Linux and Mac, also with other important schemas like SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and more.

Oct. 16, 2003 - xsddoc-0-0-2 releasedt

generated xml and html files reorganised, also super- and sub-types are shown in context.

Oct. 13, 2003 - xsddoc-0-0-1 release

following the mantra of Open Source software, we decided to release early and often, so here you can download our first pre-alpha release of xsddoc, a Tool to create documentation for XML Schemas. Currently xsddoc is based on Apache Ant to create multiple output pages.