Release Notes

The purpose of this document is to provide a description of a Validate Tool release including any impact that the new or modified capabilities will have on the Discipline Nodes or the PDS user community. An itemized list of changes for each release can be found in the Release Changes document.

Release 1.0.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 2.1.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Includes the latest set of schemas generated from the PDS4 data model.
• Added support for XML Schema 1.1 and support for XML Catalogs.
• Cleaned up the documentation.

The one lien for this release is related to the XML Catalog implementation. Although the capability is available for this release, the developers feel that its use could be more intuitive. This will be addressed in the next release.

Release 0.4.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 2.0.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. This release includes a couple of bug fixes and support for older versions of the PDS data model.

Release 0.3.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.2.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. This release includes the latest set of schemas generated from the PDS4 data model.

Release 0.2.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.1.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. This release includes the latest set of schemas generated from the PDS4 data model.

Release 0.1.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.0.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Support for validating a product label or set of product labels against a specified XML Schema. Validation capabilities provided by the Core Library.
• Support for validating against a set of packaged schemas, including determination of the appropriate schema based on the type of product label. Internal set of XML Schemas provided by the Core Library.
• Support for command-line input including specifying files or directories for validation target, specifying a regular expression for validation target, turn off directory recursion, specifying schemas for validation and specifying a file for the validation report.

The liens for this release are as follows:

• Need support for specifying a bundle or collection product and have the tool validate the products that are referenced by those products.