Adding "1.0" to kills style [solved]

MHSmith

From Citation Style Language 1.0 Language Specification:

"The Root Element - cs:style
[…]
version
Indicates with which version of the CSL schema the style is compatible. Should have a value of "1.0" for CSL 1.0-compatible styles."

I obediently included version="1.0" in line 2 (cs:style), and my style stopped working. Took me several hours to figure out that the problem was just that change and not one of many others I had made in the meantime.

So as far as I can see 'version="1.0" ' should be used only in line 1 (XML declaration), NOT in line 2.

Rintze

Are you sure the rest of the style is valid CSL 1.0 (you can check this with an XML validator: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_citation_styles#validation )? CSL 1.0 styles definitely require "version='1.0'" on the style element.

MHSmith

Well it passes validator.nu flying, both with "version='1.0'" (which made it unusable) and without.

Here is the rest of the line:
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="note" default-locale="fr-FR" initialize-with-hyphen="true">

Rintze

If your style appears to validate against the CSL 1.0 schema ( http://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-schema/raw/855dcc00cba7/csl.rnc ) without "version='1.0' on the style element, you're not validating the style correctly.

Can you upload it to https://gist.github.com/ and post the URL here?

MHSmith

Here:
git@gist.github.com:e38a82156a955b2f4186.git

(is this a URL?? doesn't look like one)

Rintze

Got it: https://gist.github.com/e38a82156a955b2f4186

Edit: validating the style on http://validator.nu/ against the CSL 1.0 schema gives 27 errors: https://gist.github.com/raw/671410/d3c496db374c89af65adf659f16b1737e00371dc/gistfile1.txt

MHSmith

And I see that the URL against which I should validate my style is not the one that I found was recommended yesterday (http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl), suppose that explains it. Now I also get the 27 errors. Back to work, and thanks again.

Rintze

Who recommended that?

bdarcus

And I see that the URL against which I should validate my style is not the one that I found was recommended yesterday (http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl).

That URL is simply a computer readable name for "CSL." It points to the main website for CSL. It is not the URL to use for the schema one uses to validate it.

MHSmith

OK, the 27 errors are gone, thanks a lot.

(Can't remember where I got my wrong notion of validation, I thought I read it somewhere on this site, but perhaps my mistake).