Draft 2.3 Release
RIXML version 2.3 is principally motivated by the desire to improve clarity and respond to lessons learned from using the schema in production over an extended period of time. The organization has received excellent feedback from its member firms stemming from implementation projects and substantial exposure to real instance documents produced industry-wide. We’ve improved the definitions of more than 120 of the enumerated values governing restricted tags throughout the schema. We hope this will reduce confusion and corral the breadth of interpretations for these values we’ve seen in the field. We’ve also seen many cases where publishers elected to populate tags with default values in the absence of reliable, accurate values. This practice leads to inaccurate tags, which, naturally, we view as worse than absent tags. So, we’ve loosened tag cardinalities where beneficial. Version 2.3 does not break backward-compatibility with version 2.2. That is, a RIXML instance document that validates against version 2.2 will also validate against version 2.3 User Guide
The purpose of the User Guide is to assist readers in their understanding of the RIXML specification. It outlines the approach we took in creating the RIXML standard and also explains some fundamental concepts such as XML, object modeling, schemas, etc. Diagrams of the RIXML object model are included as are definitions for the elements and attributes. Release Notes
This document highlights the changes between version 2.2 of the RIXML specification and version 2.3. Schema
The RIXML Schema is the actual XSD files that represent the relationships and components as defined by the object model. These files can also be used to validate instance documents to ensure they are RIXML-compliant. Beginning with this release, the RIXML schema is now distributed as a set of three files, as described in the Change Log. |
