********************** ***** HISTORY ***** ********************** ****************************************** ***** SCHEMAS TO INCLUDE ***** ******************************************* contents.xsd - contains the elements and attributes that define the OPML 2.0 specification ********************************************* ***** ROOT ELEMENT DEFINED ***** ********************************************* *************************************************** ***** COMPLEX TYPES (alpha order) ***** *************************************************** opmlType - is root element type headType - provides title, date and window information bodyType - is the main content of an OPML document version - is a number defining the edition of OPML used ********************************** ***** SCHEMA PUPOSE ***** ********************************** Define an OPML 2.0 file format using XML schema OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language and is used for exchanging information between outliners and Internet services. It is intended to be the file format for outliner applications. It can also be used to exchange subscription lists between feed readers and aggregators. ******************************* *****SCHEMA INTENT ***** ******************************* Act as an overarching schema that defines the root element of OPML 2.0 documents A schema (see schemas to include) is called that defines the OPML sub-elements/attributes ****************************** ***** NAMESPACES ***** ****************************** This schema has a target namespaces of: http://www.dlese.org/Metadata/opml This schema has a default namespace of: http://www.dlese.org/Metadata/opml Namespace defaulting mechanism is used to suppress the need to qualify elements ******************************** ***** ROOT ELEMENT ***** ******************************** This schema has a root element of: opml See the root element defined section Included schemas do not have a root element ******************************************* ***** SCHEMA DEVELOPMENT ***** ******************************************* Tends to follow the Venetian Blind approach that defines types that can be extended Interprets the OPML 2.0 specification found at: http://www.opml.org/spec2 Created: 2006-04-20 Last Modified 2006-04-20 ********************************** ***** SCHEMA AUTHOR ***** ********************************** Katy Ginger, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Program Center; email: support@dlese.org or ginger@ucar.edu ******************************************* ***** LICENSE INFORMATION ***** ******************************************* Copyright (c) 2006 DLESE Program Center, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States of America; email: support@dlese.org; website: http://www.dlese.org This schema is free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. These schemas are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this project; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ****************************************************** ***** OTHER COPYRIGHT INFORMATION ***** ****************************************************** Parts of this page are copied and developed from Dave Winer's OPML specification found at: http://www.opml.org/spec2. Per the request of that document, its copyright notice is included here and applies to information in this directory and corresponding subdirectories: © Copyright 2000 UserLand Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. © Copyright 2006 Scripting News, Inc. All Rights Reserved. UserLand Software, Inc. and Scripting News, Inc. are refererred to in the following as "the Companies." 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