History of the ANZMETA DTD

About the ANZMETA DTD
and see the documentation for each DTD to explain the changes.

Version 1.3 ... 9 February 2001

• added "custodian" attribute to <keyword> element
• added <vertex> container within <dsgpolyo>
• optional "thesaurus" attribute for <keyword> element
• mandatory <spdom> and <distinfo> container elements
• added missing entity set ISOnum.pen
• corrected syntax for ISOlat1 entity set declaration
• changed declarations of entity sets to be local references because Schema.Net has removed the entity sets
• added comment that you must use Open Catalogs with your XML parser to resolve any external references
• explanation of how to upgrade from v1.1 to v1.3

Version 1.2 ... 4 March 1999

• Facilitates extensibility and customisation by building on this base DTD.
• Now uses XML compatible character entities.
• Added "identifier" attribute to "keyword".
• References to official authority lists of valid keywords.

Version 1.1 ... 1 January 1998

• Comments and suggestions on version 1.0 of the DTD along with new developments such as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) have necessitated some revisions.
• This version of the DTD now has proper structure and can be processed by SGML parsers.

Version 1.0 ... May 1997

• In 1997 ERIN coordinated the development of this draft DTD. The results of this work were published on the ozmeta-l discussion list in May 1997 as version 1.0 of the ANZLIC metadata DTD.

Draft version ... July 1996

• Version 1 of the ANZLIC Metadata Guidelines published in July 1996, included a basic draft SGML DTD conforming to the core element guidelines.