1 Release Notes for minixsv, Release 0.3

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     3 minixsv is a XML schema validator written in "pure" Python.

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     5 Currently only a subset of the XML schema standard is supported

     6 (list of limitations/restrictions see below).

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     8 minixsv currently uses minidom or elementtree as XML parser

     9 Other parsers can easily be adapted by implementing an appropriate interface class

    10 Whitespaces inside strings are automatically normalized/collapsed as specified in the XML schema file

    11 Default/Fixed attributes are automatically inserted if not specified in the input file

    12 

    13 --------------------------------------------------------------------

    14  The minixsv XML schema validator is

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    16  Copyright (c) 2004 by Roland Leuthe

    17 

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    20  and will comply with the following terms and conditions:

    21 

    22  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and

    23  its associated documentation for any purpose and without fee is

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    32  TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT-

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    38  OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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    42 Limitations/restrictions of the current release:

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    44 - No support of namespaces

    45 - Only first text node is validated/processed as Element content

    46 - No validation of predefined types decimal, float, double, date/time types, DURATION, anyURI, base64Binary

    47 - Only partial validation for language, QName, DTD types

    48 - No validation for facets of not validated predefined types (see above)

    49 - Derivation of complex types from simple types not supported

    50 - Mixed content (child nodes and text nodes) not supported

    51 - No check if no element content exists when xsi:nil = "true" is specified

    52 - No support of attributes "elementFormDefault", "attributeFormDefault", "form"

    53 - "import" element not supported

    54 - no check if derived type and base type match

    55 - no check of attributes "final", "finalDefault"

    56 - "redefine" element not supported

    57 - no support of substitution groups

    58 - no support of abstract elements and types

    59 - uniqueness of identity constraints (unique/key/keyref) is only checked on string base

    60   (in case of element content only the first text node is evaluated)

    61 - "processContents" attribute not supported

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    63 Note: This constraint list may not be complete!!

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    68 Contents

    69 ========

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    71 readme.txt

    72 __init__.py

    73 pyxsval.py

    74 xsvalSchema.py

    75 xsvalBase.py

    76 xsvalSimpleTypes.py

    77 xsvalErrorHandler.py

    78 xmlifbase.py

    79 minidomif.py

    80 elemtreeif.py

    81 xsStructs.xsd

    82 datatypes.xsd

    83 datatypes2.xsd

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    85 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

    86 

    87 HISTORY:

    88 =======

    89 

    90 Changes to Release 0.2

    91 ======================

    92 

    93 - API re-structured

    94 - XML text processing added

    95 - several bugs fixed

    96 - internal re-structuring

    97  

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    99 Changes to Release 0.1

   100 ======================

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   102 - Error/warning outputs contain now also filename and linenumber

   103 - Basic URI support for include directive added

   104 - XML interface classes completely re-designed

   105 - several bugs fixed

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