Release Notes of XMLReleaseNotes

The release notes of the XRN Guide and the XRN web site have been created.

XRN deploy via Ant

The Ant 'deploy' now also extracts the 'XMLReleaseNotesCommon.xsl' file.

This is necessary if someone intends to use the XSL machinery for integrating XRN into another HTML generation process.

detail: tech fix

contributor: EMercier

XML namespace

There were some unwished XML namespace references in the generated HTML stuff.

The generated HTML pages should now be XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant.

detail: tech fix

contributor: EMercier

Ant XRN task package changed

The Ant XRN task has been moved from Java package 'org.ed.pack.xmlreleasenotes' to 'org.xrn.ant'.

Do not forget to change the task 'taskdef' declarations accordingly!

detail: tech enhance

asking: NChalumeau, CManeg

contributor: EMercier

Ant XRN task declaration

You can now directly use the Ant XRN task by using a 'typedef', instead of a 'taskdef'.

The resource name is 'XMLReleaseNotes/org/xrn/ant/task.properties'.

detail: tech enhance

contributor: EMercier

<XSD> [0.14.0], [0.10.0], [0.8.0], [0.6.6]

The feature reason

The XSD 'why' attribute has been turned into a 'reason' attribute.

This is supposed to have been propagated to all the XRN core (CSS style sheet, XSL style sheets).

detail: func business

asking: CManeg

contributor: EMercier

Content rendering

When some content was expressed using a <![CDATA[]]> statement, the content was rendered as is, instead of considering the HTML tags.

This is now fixed?

But this introduces the relevance of the 'contentType' attribute, which should be rather used to indicate whether the textual content should be interpreted or not instead...

detail: tech fix

contributor: EMercier

Composition
The delivery now contains explicitely the XRN Guide.
new	XRNGuide 1.0

Dependencies
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.5.0	In order to compile the Ant Java source code. This is required because we want to work on fix version of Ant, so as to make sure that is actually Ant V1.5+ compatible. This Ant distribution also contains the necessary 'ant.jar' (for compiling with the Ant API), 'optional.jar' that is part of Ant (and which is required at compile time), and 'xml-apis.jar' libraries, so you do not need to bother. Just make sure that those libraries are intact, and actually those shipped with Ant V1.5.0!
from 0.17.1	Xerces 2	This is both a dependency and a requirement (at runtime). The Ant V1.5.0 'xercesImpl.jar' is used for compilation: it should however be present in your clean Ant V1.5.0 runtime, so that you do not have anything to do with it.
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.6.1+	In order to use all Ant new features as far as the process managment is concerned (use of the 'macrodef' task). This is required for development because the Ant buildfiles only support this (fresh, yes, too bad) version.

Requirements
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.5+	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant. Note that the Ant runtime is supposed to contain in its 'lib' directory the shipped-with 'xercersImpl.jar' and 'xml-api.jar' libraries.
from 0.17.1	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon V6 (download the jar here) or Xalan V2+ (download the jar here) in your Ant 'lib' directory.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.18.0.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.17.3

start date: 2004.11.18

build date: 2004.11.27

The "XRN Guide" is still not complete, but it has been much enhanced. The web site has been reviewed, so that it should be clearer.

<XRNGuide> [0.17.2]

XRN Guide

The guide begins to be usable now...

detail: func business

Dependencies
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.5.0	In order to compile the Ant Java source code. This is required because we want to work on fix version of Ant, so as to make sure that is actually Ant V1.5+ compatible. This Ant distribution also contains the necessary 'ant.jar' (for compiling with the Ant API), 'optional.jar' that is part of Ant (and which is required at compile time), and 'xml-apis.jar' libraries, so you do not need to bother. Just make sure that those libraries are intact, and actually those shipped with Ant V1.5.0!
from 0.17.1	Xerces 2	This is both a dependency and a requirement (at runtime). The Ant V1.5.0 'xercesImpl.jar' is used for compilation: it should however be present in your clean Ant V1.5.0 runtime, so that you do not have anything to do with it.
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.6.1+	In order to use all Ant new features as far as the process managment is concerned (use of the 'macrodef' task). This is required for development because the Ant buildfiles only support this (fresh, yes, too bad) version.

Requirements
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.5+	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant. Note that the Ant runtime is supposed to contain in its 'lib' directory the shipped-with 'xercersImpl.jar' and 'xml-api.jar' libraries.
from 0.17.1	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon V6 (download the jar here) or Xalan V2+ (download the jar here) in your Ant 'lib' directory.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.17.3.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.17.2

start date: 2004.11.15

build date: 2004.11.18

This is simply a release that proposes a guide, name the "XRN Guide". The web site has been enhanced, so as to integrate this guide.

XRN Guide

A guide has been started, so as to explain how to use the XRN framework, from an end-user perspective.

This is just starts and needs much, much work...

detail: func business

Dependencies
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.5.0	In order to compile the Ant Java source code. This is required because we want to work on fix version of Ant, so as to make sure that is actually Ant V1.5+ compatible. This Ant distribution also contains the necessary 'ant.jar' (for compiling with the Ant API), 'optional.jar' that is part of Ant (and which is required at compile time), and 'xml-apis.jar' libraries, so you do not need to bother. Just make sure that those libraries are intact, and actually those shipped with Ant V1.5.0!
from 0.17.1	Xerces 2	This is both a dependency and a requirement (at runtime). The Ant V1.5.0 'xercesImpl.jar' is used for compilation: it should however be present in your clean Ant V1.5.0 runtime, so that you do not have anything to do with it.
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.6.1+	In order to use all Ant new features as far as the process managment is concerned (use of the 'macrodef' task). This is required for development because the Ant buildfiles only support this (fresh, yes, too bad) version.

Requirements
from 0.17.1	Ant 1.5+	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant. Note that the Ant runtime is supposed to contain in its 'lib' directory the shipped-with 'xercersImpl.jar' and 'xml-api.jar' libraries.
from 0.17.1	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon V6 (download the jar here) or Xalan V2+ (download the jar here) in your Ant 'lib' directory.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.17.2.zip	The 'guide' folder is now present: this is an entry point for end-user.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.17.1

start date: 2004.11.10

build date: 2004.11.14

This release addresses bug fixings but above all the cross references plugin layout.

<pluginLayout> [0.17.0]

Plugin layout

Now, the 'XRN2HTMLPluginReference.xsl' plugin layout is fully functional.

detail: func enhance

Block rendering

Fixed the composition, dependencies, requirements and deliveries blocks as far as the column widths are concerned.

detail: func fix

Components ordering

When generating multi-components release notes, the sorting of the components now depends on the component identifier.

detail: func fix

Dependencies
new	Ant 1.5.0	In order to compile the Ant Java source code. This is required because we want to work on fix version of Ant, so as to make sure that is actually Ant V1.5+ compatible. This Ant distribution also contains the necessary 'ant.jar' (for compiling with the Ant API), 'optional.jar' that is part of Ant (and which is required at compile time), and 'xml-apis.jar' libraries, so you do not need to bother. Just make sure that those libraries are intact, and actually those shipped with Ant V1.5.0!
new	Xerces 2	This is both a dependency and a requirement (at runtime). The Ant V1.5.0 'xercesImpl.jar' is used for compilation: it should however be present in your clean Ant V1.5.0 runtime, so that you do not have anything to do with it.
new	Ant 1.6.1+	In order to use all Ant new features as far as the process managment is concerned (use of the 'macrodef' task). This is required for development because the Ant buildfiles only support this (fresh, yes, too bad) version.

Requirements
Of course, you need the current XRN version of the Ant XRN task 'XMLReleaseNotes.lib' present in the 'lib' directory of the delivery package. The jar library file must be present in Ant runtime 'lib' directory.
new	Ant 1.5+	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant. Note that the Ant runtime is supposed to contain in its 'lib' directory the shipped-with 'xercersImpl.jar' and 'xml-api.jar' libraries.
new	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon V6 (download the jar here) or Xalan V2+ (download the jar here) in your Ant 'lib' directory.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.17.1.zip	The 'XRN2HTMLPluginReference.xsl' plugin layout file is now present both in the zip delivery and in the Ant jar file.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.17.0

start date: 2004.10.30

build date: 2004.11.10

This is a dirty release (not much detailed and missing source code documentation). Added the concept of tags and added the multiple page plugin feature.

<actors> [0.14.0]

Contributor and asking person

Fixed the remaining bug due to the XML name change.

This used to prevent the multiple contributors and asking persons from appearing in the generated feature HTML pages.

detail: tech fix

<AntDeploy> [0.4.0]

Ant 'deploy'

The feature was bugged (the 'deploy' Ant XRN task parameter) because the 'XMLActors.xsd' extraction was incorrect.

detail: tech fix

<dependencyModel> [0.15.0]

Dependencies

Fixed a bug that used to make the generated XML not compliant with the framework.

detail: tech fix

Plugin layout

Added the opportunity to extend the multiple page layout via some plugins.

This is possible via the 'pluginLayout' Ant task inner XML element.

detail: func enhance

<tags>

Tags

Added a new optional 'Tags' elements as a child element of the 'Feature' XML element.

This makes the framework more extensible because XSLT model plugin can take benefit of this extra information.

This new tag should also be deployed at other levels, like the 'Release', 'Component', for instance.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.17.0.zip	Numerous XSLT files added corresponding to the new plugin layout feature.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.16.0

start date: 2004.10.25

build date: 2004.10.25

The feature hierarchy concept has been introduced.

{XSD} [0.14.0], [0.10.0], [0.8.0], [0.6.6]
<feature> [0.14.0], [0.12.0]

Parent feature

The 'Feature/@parentID' attribute has been added.

This enables to indicate that a feature belongs to a parent-feature, and thus provide a hierachy among the features.

Still beta and should be considered as a try...

detail: func business

<HTML> [0.10.1], [0.6.6], [0.6.4]

Features sum-up

The features hierarchy is now emphasized on the features summary page, by nesting the feature content with a parent within its parent.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.16.0.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.15.0

start date: 2004.10.24

build date: 2004.10.25

Some bugs have been fixed. Added new XSLT model plugins.

Dependencies

The new 'DependencyModel.xsl' new plugin enables to inline the release notes dependency-components of a component.

When a component has a new dependency (expressed via the 'Release/Dependencies/Component' XML element), this plugin inlines the depending-component by looking at its XRN release notes found via the corresponding 'ReleaseNotes/Components/Component/@xml' attribute.

This is the reason why it is important to express the XRN release notes of all depending components.

detail: func enhance

{AntTask} [0.3.2]
<migration> [0.8.0], [0.6.4], [0.6.2], [0.4.1]

Implicit migration

Added the 'implicitlyMigrate' parameter to the Ant task, so that it is possible to migrate the provided XRN files if necessary, without migrating the original.

No, when the Ant 'migrate' parameter is used, only the migration is performed.

detail: func enhance

contributor: EMercier

{plugin} [0.10.0]
<SectionFilterModel>

Section filter XSLT model

This new XSLT model 'SectionFilterModel' enables to filter the sections to keep when generating the release notes.

It enables to filter the 'Summary', 'Composition', 'Dependencies', 'Requirements' and 'Deliveries' XML 'Release'-child elements individually.

Usefull, for instance, when you want to generate an HTML download page.

detail: tech technical

<VSC> [0.6.6], [0.6.1]

CVSModel XSLT model plugin

Fixed the deprecated 'Feature/Abstract' XML element use (which is now 'Feature/Title').

detail: tech fix

Actors XSD and migration

Added the 'XRNActors.xsd' schema in order to know how to fulfill the actors XML file.

Fixed the 0.13.0 to 0.14.0 migration stylesheet.

detail: tech fix

Release build date

The release build date has been added to the summary page when the multi-component feature is being used.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.15.0.zip	Added the previously forgottent 'XRNActors.xsd'. Added the XSLT model 'DependencyModel.xsl' and 'SectionFilterModel' plugins. Removed the 'DownloadLayout.xsl' XSLT layout, which is not used anymore.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.14.0

start date: 2004.09.01

build date: 2004.10.21

Miscellaneous features have been added.

Actors

The 'Actors.xsd' schema has been normalized and you can now use it in order to define all actors involved in the process.

Either you use the 'Actors' top-child XML element of 'ReleaseNotes', or you use the 'XRNActors' plugin model XSL in order to provide one.

The actors file should comply to the 'XRNActors.xsd' schema present in the package.

For every actor, when this plugin is used, you can directly write to him by clicking the hyperlink (via a 'mailto' HTML tag).

detail: func business

<feature> [0.12.0]

Feature title

The 'Feature/Abstract' XML element has been renamed 'Title' because this is more adapted.

detail: tech fix

Release 'freshness' indicator

On each HTML release, the "freshness" of the release is now indicated by a color at the right of the version name.

detail: func enhance

<XSD> [0.10.0], [0.8.0], [0.6.6]

XSD change

The inner 'Contributors' and 'AskingPersons' XML element now contain 'Actor' XML elements so as to simplify the XSD.

The 'Abstract' element has been renamed as 'Title'.

detail: tech enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.14.0.zip	Added the 'XRNActors.xsl' plugin model XSLT

XMLReleaseNotes 0.13.0

build date: 2004.08.31

A minor release with only the title header, footer new feature.

<cumulative> [0.8.0]

Cumulative

The 'cumulative' attribute of the Ant XRN task has been made obsolete.

The ''VersionAndTypeFilterModel' model XSLT plugin should be used instead.

detail: tech bug-fixing fix

Title, header, footer

You can now provide a title, a header and a footer for the multi-components into HTML.

This is possible in the Ant task through the inner 'title', 'header' and 'footer' XML elements.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.13.0.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.12.0

build date: 2004.08.29

All the filtering has been replaced by a model XSLT. There are backward incompabilities.

Multiple asking persons and contributors

When the inner 'Contributors' and 'AskingPersons' XML element (in the 'Feature' XML element) were used, only the first actor was output in the HTML page.

detail: tech bug-fixing fix

Feature with no ID hyperlink

On the 'Feature' HTML page, add an hyperlink to the release where the anonymous feature has been defined.

detail: func bug-fixing fix

Filtering

The version (via the 'firstVersion' and 'lastVersion' attributes), feature type (via the 'type' attribute) and importance (via the 'importanceThreshold') filtering has been removed from the Ant XRN task.

Those filters are now performed by the ''VersionAndTypeFilterModel' plugin-model XSLT, in order to make the XSLT code easier.

detail: tech enhance

<importance> [0.9.0], [0.6.4], [0.6.2]

Importance default level

The importance default value is now considered to be set to 3, so that it makes sense: it was set to 4, so that all features are equaly very important by default.

The level 5 has been added, so as to make 3 in the middle of the range.

detail: tech enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.12.0.zip	Added the 'VersionAndTypeFilterModel.xsl' plugin model XSLT.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.11.0

build date: 2004.08.28

Added the 'Feature' summary HTML page, which enables to review all the release notes features.

Features HTML page

Provide an HTML page that gathers all features.

This is still beta and will be improved...

detail: func enhance

contributor: EMercier

Feature inheritance and layout

The layout of the feature has been enhanced.

Multiple features with the same 'ID' are now gathered.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.11.0.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.10.1

build date: 2004.08.16

Minor enhancements.

<HTML> [0.6.6], [0.6.4]

Obsolete XRN file

The warning output when a XRN file is obsolete now states the ID of the component.

detail: tech enhance

Bottom banner visibility

The bottom banner for XRN promotion was still visible on the generated HTML pages (with multi-components enabled), even when the 'banner' Ant attribute was set to 'no'.

detail: tech bug-fixing fix

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.10.1.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.10.0

build date: 2004.08.16

delivery date: 2004.08.06

This is a major release since multiple-components release notes can be now be generated properly.

<Ant>

XSLT implementation

Provided the ability for the user to define the XSLT implementation to be used.

This is possible via the task attribute 'processor', which should be set to the class fully qualified name that implements the 'javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory' interface.

detail: tech enhance

<maven>

Maven

Now provides an XSLT model for integrating the maven POM.

This is possible via the 'MavenModel' model XSLT plugin: the POM short description is just taken and integrated into the release notes.

detail: func enhance

Multiple components

Added the opportunity to generate the release notes for more than one component at the same time.

The Ant task now supports the 'fileset' inner XML element.

Some navigation pages are now being generated when the feature is enabled.

The javadoc-like selectors have been added to the CSS.

Multiple HTML pages are being produced, a little bit like javadoc does, so as to split the different release (present the generated HTML generated by the XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl a bit like javadoc format, so as to output a single HTML page for each release).

detail: tech enhance

{AntTask} [0.3.2]
<plugin>

XSLT model plugin

It is now possible to use the model XSLT present in the jar via the Ant 'plugin' attribute that can be used on the 'model' XML inner element.

Refer to it as you would via the 'xsl' attribute, but omit the '.xsl' extension.

detail: tech

<XSD> [0.8.0], [0.6.6]

Component summary

A top-child XML element 'Summary' has been added so as to provide a way to briefly describe what the component is about.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.10.0.zip	Added two template XRN files in the 'doc' directory. Added two new XSLT plugins.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.9.0

build date: 2004.08.06

delivery date: 2004.07.23

New feature available: the download page generation. The CSS has been largely revisited.

<CSS> [0.6.6], [0.6.4], [0.6.0], [0.4.0]

CSS

Totally re-engineered the CSS, so that there are now only class selectors.

Began to annotate the selectors, so as to easier the customization.

detail: tech enhance

Download page

It is now possible to generate a single download page that enabes to overview all the deliveries, while removing the feature details.

This is possible via the Ant 'downloadPage' new feature.

detail: func enhance

<importance> [0.6.4], [0.6.2]

Feature importance

Fixed the feature importance bug that was actually not taken into account during the XSLT.

detail: tech bug-fixing fix

Icons

Prepared the XSL so that icons may be included in the generated HTML page, so as to enhance the layout.

detail: tech enhance

Dependencies
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.8.0	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.9.0.zip	Added the first XRN template in the 'doc' directory.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.8.0

build date: 2004.07.23

delivery date: 2004.05.16

A major release because it brings the release notes cross-references feature, as well as the XML release notes validation.

Cumulative

Now, provides an additional XSLT model that enables to generate a release notes between two versions, in a cumulative way.

Ant: the 'cumulative' attribute has been added in order to ask for a cumulative release notes.

detail: func enhance

<migration> [0.6.4], [0.6.2], [0.4.1]

Implicit migration

An implicit migration before the rendering is performed on the release notes when required, without overwritting the file (done in memory only).

detail: tech enhance

Validation

It is now possible to check that the structure of the data entered in the XRN release notes XSML file are compliant with the framework.

It is now posible to check the XRN release notes XML file against its XSD schema (present in the jar).

This can be achieved via the Ant task by using the 'checkValidity' top parameter.

Now, an additional feature would be to actually analyze the XRN release notes file in order to check more deeply that the information is coherent.

detail: func enhance

<XSD> [0.6.6]

Components release notes

Added an optional 'Components' top-child element, in order to be able to access the components (present via the dependencies, composition and requirements features) that already have an XRN XML release notes defined.

This enable release notes cross references.

This makes the framework more worth, and this becomes interesting.

XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl: the XML to HTML renderer takes benefit of this feature by providing additional hyperlinks on the components references.

Now, an additional feature would be to inline those additional release notes into the generated HTML.

detail: func enhance

<XSLT> [0.7.0], [0.5.0]

XSLT piping

The way the XSL transformations are applied is now more open: additional pre and post treatement is now easier.

detail: tech enhance

Dependencies
new	XercesImpl 2	See the requirement section.
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
new	XercesImpl 2	This implementation of SAX is necessary for the XML validation agains its schema. It should be present in the Ant 'lib' directory (via the usual 'xercesImpl.jar' Java archive).
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.8.0.zip	Added the 'XMLReleaseNotes/CumulativeModel.xsl' and 'XMLReleaseNotes/CumulativeLayout.xsl' files, for the cumulative new feature.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.7.0

build date: 2004.05.16

delivery date: 2004.05.09

It is now possible to output several HTML pages for a component.

HTML rendering

It is now possible to output the release notes in multiple HTML pages, one per version.

The status is still very beta, but it can already be used.

detail: func enhance

Open source

The project is now proposed as open-source, so that people can contribute.

detail: tech business

<XSLT> [0.5.0]

Last version

When the 'lastVersion' parameter did not match to anything in the release notes, no HTML was output: this is now fixed.

detail: tech bug-fixing fix

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.7.0.zip	Additional stylesheets have been added: 'XMLReleaseNotes2HTMLMultiple1.0.xsl' (compliant with XSLT V1.0), 'XMLReleaseNotes2HTMLMultiple2.0.xsl' (compliant with XSLT V2.0) and 'XMLReleaseNotes2HTMLMultipleXalan.xsl' (compliant with Xalan XSLT implementation).

XMLReleaseNotes 0.6.6

build date: 2004.05.09

delivery date: 2004.05.06

This is a minor release that mainly concerns HTML rendering.

<CSS> [0.6.4], [0.6.0], [0.4.0]

Printer friendly

The printer-friendly 'XMLReleaseNotesPrint.css' stylesheet has been significantly improved.

The default CSS has also been changed, in order to easier the customization.

detail: tech enhance

<HTML> [0.6.4]

HTML feature detail rendering

Changed the way the feature details (type, why, bug-fixing, category) are layout, so that it is easier to make a printer-friendly CSS.

The 'category' attribute is now being diplayed.

detail: tech enhance

<VSC> [0.6.1]

VSC XSLT-model

Fixed this plugin XSLT that was bugged due to the renaming of the 'BuildingBlock' element as 'Item'.

detail: tech bug-fixing fix

<XSD>

Category

A 'category' attribute has been added the 'Feature' XML element, so as to provide a free additional indicator, that can be handled later on by the XSLT.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.6.6.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.6.5

build date: 2004.05.06

delivery date: 2004.05.04

An Ant V1.6+ related bug has been fixed.

<URIResolver> [0.5.1]

XMLCatalog bug with Ant V1.6+

The Ant API has changed between Ant V1.5.0 and Ant V1.6: there was a runtime bug because of that. This is now fixed via introspection.

detail: tech fix

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.6.5.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.6.4

build date: 2004.05.04

delivery date: 2004.05.01

Noticeable evolution concerning the HTML rendering. Some structural minor change. Work has begun as far as friendly-printing is concerned.

<CSS> [0.6.0], [0.4.0]

Printer friendly

CSS: work begun on a CSS that makes the printing friendly via the 'XMLReleaseNotesPrint.css' stylesheet.

The structure has changed a lot.

Still under beat and this probably massively the default CSS structure.

detail: tech enhance

<dependCompoRequi> [0.6.0]

Composition, dependencies and requirements

XSL and Ant: added the 'composition', 'dependency' and 'requirement' parameters that enables to control whether those kind of information should be output or not.

detail: func enhance

<HTML>

HTML rendering

The version and delivery column have disappeared and have been integrated to each release, respectively at the top and at the bottom.

detail: tech enhance

<importance> [0.6.2]

Visibility and Importance

Ant and XSLT: fixed the bug due to the fact that the 'visibility' feature has been changed.

Ant: the 'visibilityThreshold' parameter has been replaced by the 'importanceThreshold' parameter.

detail: func fix

<migration> [0.6.2], [0.4.1]

BuildingBlock and Item

XSD: turned the 'BuildingBlock' XML element into 'Item' because this is simpler and more apropriate.

A migration XSLT has been provided in order to migrate existing XRN XML release notes.

detail: func enhance

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.6.4.zip	An additional CSS has been added, the one which is supposed to become printer-friendly, 'src/XMLReleaseNotesPrint.css'. A new XSLT migration 'migration/XMLReleaseNotesConvertorV0.6.2-0.6.4.xsl' has been added.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.6.3

build date: 2004.05.01

delivery date: 2004.05.01

The previous release notes delivery was wrong because it pointed to V0.6.1.

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.6.3.zip	Added all XSLT migration in the zip.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.6.2

build date: 2004.05.01

delivery date: 2004.04.21

XRN has improved as far as migration is concerned. The concept of visibility has been replaced by the concept of importance.

Visibility and Importance

The concept of importance was definitively badly expressed though the 'visibility' concept: this has been replaced by the 'importance' concept.

XSD: the attribute 'visibility' has been replaced by 'importance'.

Use the new migration feature in order to upgrade your XRN XML release notes files.

detail: func business

<migration> [0.4.1]

XRN migration

Ant: added the 'migrate' parameter that enables to automatically migrate the version of the XML release notes file up to the version of the XRN wrapped in the Ant jar.

Since the XSLT are also present in the zip, you can perform the migration via pure XSLT.

detail: tech enhance

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.6.2.zip	Added the migration XSLT in the Ant jar library.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.6.1

build date: 2004.04.21

This release fixes bad previous designs, and proposes a first plugin for the integration of CVS change logs into the release notes.

<mail> [0.6.0]

Ant task mail re-engineering

It was definitively a bad idea to inline the mail task at the same XML hierarchy level as the XRN task's. The mail task is now an inner XML element, and the 'mail' parameter is discarded.

You can now provide a specific subject to the sent-mail via the 'subject' parameter of the inner 'mail' XML element.

detail: tech bug-fixing enhance

<VSC>

Versioning Control System

Enables a deeper integration with the VCS systems, so that it is possible to track down the source changes.

This enables to produce more accurate and exhaustive release notes, dedicated to the support of the component.

This opens the framework to the versioning system and enhance this information, that is too often restricted to developers, when they take the time to make views...

This is now possible for CVS via the 'plugin/CVSModel.xsl' XSLT model file: beta for the moment, because it lacks integration...

Added the 'vsc' feature type so as to render this feature a different way via the XSLT: not yet taken into account.

Feature new type

detail: func enhance

<Why>

The 'why' feature attribute

Added the 'why' attribute to the 'Feature' XML element, in order to better understand the reason for the feature. This enables to better understand the evolution of the component.

This enables to open the framework to existing solutions that deal with the needs collecting.

This attribute is not yet taken into account...

detail: func business

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.6.1.zip	Added the 'plugin' directory that should contain all the plugins in the future.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.6.0

build date: 2004.04.20

delivery date: 2004.04.20

This version adds the Ant 'mailing' feature, proposes to inline the CSS, so as to make possible stand-alone HTML release notes pages.

<CSS> [0.4.0]

Feature visibility

XSL: added CSS selector classes named 'featureVisibilityN' in order to give control to a feature visibility, where N ranges from 1 to 4.

Ant: it is now possible to inline the CSS content within the generated HTML, so as to be make some HTML stand-alone. This is possible via the 'inlineCSS' parameter.

CSS inlined

New dependency, composition, requirement

XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl: fixed the problem of the '[from M.m.µ]' display when [new] also appears (dependencies, requirements, composition).

Improvement of the Feature ID

<FeatureID> [0.5.1]

A better HTML rendering of the feature inheritance and its identifier is now performed.

Ant: added the opportunity to mail the release notes directly from the task, since the task derives from the official Ant 'Mail' task.

<mail>

Mail

delivery date: 2004.04.15

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.5.1	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.6.0.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.5.1

build date: 2004.04.15

Some XSLT technical improvements and some functional additions is the HTML rendering.

Reuse of the Feature ID

Pay more attention to the 'ID' of a 'Feature' element and refer to it if already defined in the past. Now hyperlinks are displayed for already defined features.

Enable a better way to express that some HTML tags may be used within the XML release notes, as far as textual content is concerned: the 'contentType' attribute has been added to nearly all textual possible places. When set to 'html', you can use HTML tags. This is now possible but do not abuse it because you have to think that those release notes may be output in other formats than HTML!...

HTML content

URI resolver and parameters

Ant: added the opportunity to use URI resolvers in the XSLT provided by the user via the inner 'xmlcatalog' XML element within the 'model' and 'layout' elements. This is the native Ant XMLCatalog element.

Ant: added the possibility to provide XSLT parameters in the task via the inner 'param' element within the 'model' and 'layout' elements. This is a copy of the built-in 'XSLT' task Ant feature.

Made this 'Feature/@ID' attribute a string, so that mnemonics may be used.

Feature 'ID' attribute

delivery date: 2004.04.14

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
Beware of the Ant requirement that has changed.
new	Ant 1.5.0	This version of Ant is required because we use the `XMLCatalog` class that only appeared from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.5.1.zip	No structural change.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.5.0

build date: 2004.04.14

Opened the framework so that it is possible some external information from the outer via the Ant task.

<XSLT>

Additional XSLT

Ant: added the possibility to use additional XSLT in order to open the framework via the 'model' and 'layout' inner elements.

Provided the opportunity to define an abstract for each feature, through an 'Abstract' element within the 'Features/Feature' XML element: this enables to name the feature shortly.

Abstract

delivery date: 2004.04.13

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.3.2	Ant 1.4.1	Only if you want to use with Ant: the task has been tested from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.5.0.zip	The zip now contains a 'doc' folder, where you can find two XSLT examples.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.4.1

build date: 2004.04.13

Better package of the delivery, introduction of the concept of version of the framework.

Added a version attribute that enables to track the version of the framework used. This may be very useful as far as migration and converstions are concerned.

XSD: added the 'version' attribute indicates the version of the XMLReleaseNotes framework it complies to.

XSL: outputs this version in the bottom banner and outputs a warning if the XML release notes and the XSD are not the same version.

Fixed the bug of the delivery download hyperlink that was wrong.

XSL: enable to remove the default banner at the bottom via a 'banner' parameter. Don' disable it, otherwise the tool won't be known and there will be little support and enhancements.

Fixed the release which missed the release notes! How possible is it?

delivery date: 2004.04.12

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.3.2	Ant 1.4.1	Only if you want to use with Ant: the task has been tested from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotes-0.4.1.zip	Fixed the content of the delivery. The naming convention of the delivery file name has changed and is now 'XMLReleaseNotes-M.m.p.zip' The sources ar now placed within the 'src' directory. A readme file has been added.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.4.0

build date: 2004.04.12

This is a technical release that makes the framework more integrable.

Ant: added the 'deploy' parameter that enables to deploy the framework resources from the jar library, so as to be able to use the XSD, the CSS...

Ant: removed the default 'stylsheet.css' file into a directory named 'XMLReleaseNotes' into the jar library, so as to possible avoid conflicts with the rest of the classpath.

<CSS>

XSL: turned the 'standAloneHTML' parameter default value to 'false'.

Fixed the bug concerning the 'Requirements', 'Dependencies' and 'Composition' display, which were not always present as required.

Made the 'Release/@deliveryDate' optional, because you can build releases without never spreading them!

XSD: the schema now belongs to the 'http://xmlreleasenotes.free.fr' target namespace, which should be refered as 'xrn'.

delivery date: 2004.04.07

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.3.2	Ant 1.4.1	Only if you want to use with Ant: the task has been tested from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.4.0.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.3.3

build date: 2004.04.07

delivery date: 2004.04.01

The website is more elaborated. Just changed a few key things within the XSD.

Replaced the term 'item' by 'feature' because it is more appropriate.

Added the 'BuildingBlock' within the 'Feature' element, in order not mix the complex element with text.

detail: tech

Added the opportunity to define a release builder via the 'builderID' attribute on the 'Release' element.

detail: func

XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl: added the 'delivery' parameter that enables not to output de "Delivery" column, which enables to download the artefacts.

detail: func

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
from 0.3.2	Ant 1.4.1	Only if you want to use with Ant: the task has been tested from this version of Ant.
from 0.3.2	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.3.3.zip	The validation XSD and XSL files have been added to the distribution.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.3.2

build date: 2004.04.01

The idea is to provide a first basic Ant integration.

Added an Ant-task Java library that enables XMLReleaseNotes HTML transformation seamless integration to Ant.

delivery date: 2004.03.31

asking: EMercier

contributor: EMercier

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
The requirements have changed concerning the Ant integration, which is a new feature.
new	Ant 1.4.1	Only if you want to use with Ant: the task has been tested from this version of Ant.
new	XSLT Implementation	You need to have an XSLT implementation library like Saxon or Xalan in your Ant 'lib' directory. Both are tested and should work with XRN.

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.3.2.zip	An additional Ant Java task library is available under 'lib' and a new directory 'doc' has been created.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.3.1

build date: 2004.03.31

This is a very tiny incrementation compared to the previous release.

Added an an about page on the web-site.

The releases sorting is better thought. The need of a documentation is now needed.

delivery date: 2004.03.30

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.3.1.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.3.0

build date: 2004.03.30

This is a version that can already be used as far as HTML transformation is concerned..

Added the concept of visibility for each item, so that it is possible to filter when rendering into HTML, for instance. It is adviced to use a value that ranges from 0 to 4, 4 meaning that the item is the most visible. This is now possible through the 'visibilityThreshold' XSLT parameter.

Now, enables to tell whether the dependencies and requirements should be inherited from the previous versions. How does it work? For each 'Release' XML element...

XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl: added the possibility to filter the type of items to be documented through the 'typeFilter' parameter. This enable to remove for instance the technical information into a functional release notes dedicated to end-users.

delivery date: 2004.03.26

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.3.0.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.2.6

build date: 2004.03.26

This is a version that presents a better HTML transformation.

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.2.6.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.2.5

Added the opportunity to use a CSS when transforming into HTML via the 'XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl'.

XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl: you can now define the lower and upper limits of the versions for which the HTML is generated.

Dependencies
from 0.2.4	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.2.4	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.2.5.zip	The delivery now contains the licenses and a default CSS stylesheet named 'stylesheet.css'.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.2.4

There is no new delivery, only the web site generation has changed and contains the internal AntDoc.

Dependencies
new	WedSitor 0.5.0	WedSitor is required on the development side, because this is the component responsible for generating the web site. You should have the 'WedSitor.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
new	AntDoc 0.8g	AntDoc is required when developing because it is being used when generating the web site. You should have the 'AntDoc.jar' present in you Ant 'lib' directory.
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements

No delivery

XMLReleaseNotes 0.2.3

This is patch and the top-child 'Deliveries' XML element has been added so as to express the delivery root URL.

Added the opportuniy to add a 'ReleaseNotes' 'Deliveries' XML element direct child that can specify the common HTTP URL (via the 'href' attribute) where the deliveries are gathered.

Dependencies
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements

Deliveries
XMLReleaseNotesV0.2.3.zip

XMLReleaseNotes 0.2.2

This is the very first downloable release.

Dependencies
from 0.0.alpha	XSD 1.0	XSD is being use so as to restrict and standardize the release notes structure.
from 0.0.alpha	XML 1.0	All the tiny framework is expressed in XML, so this is of course required to build it.
from 0.0.alpha	XSLT 1.1	The obvious idea is that this framework enables to transforms the XML release notes in whatever text format, and HTML above all.
from 0.0.alpha	Ant 1.5.0	This component is required in order to ensure the build process managment.

Requirements
This is just how to show that you may not inherit from the previous requirements.

Deliveries
The V0.2.0 and V0.2.1 were not OK, as far as the automatic delivery process is concerned.
XMLReleaseNotesV0.2.2.zip	The delivery is a simple zip, not yet totally properly organized.

XMLReleaseNotes 0.2.0

This is still a very basic release, just made of two files: the XSD XMLReleaseNotes.xsd and an XML release notes example, XMLReleaseNotes.xml. It also includes the XSLT transformation XMLReleaseNotes2HTML.xsl.

delivery date: never

The architecture and files of the projets are now OK; the resources are under CVS and all the delivery engine should work, through an Ant buildfile.