new style for Advances in Complex Systems

cmbarton

This is a numbered style (citation numbers in brackets), with the bibliography ordered by author-date. Please let me know if you have suggestions or problems.

cmbarton

This style is not validating.

But when I run it through validator.nu the problems it has are from sections copied exactly from other styles in the repository.

When I try to run some of the styles in the repository through validator.nu, they also do not validate and give similar errors. Any idea what is going on?

Rintze

I get a single error running http://www.zotero.org/styles/advances-in-complex-systems/dev through validator.nu:

---
1. Error: Attribute version not allowed on element style from namespace http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl at this point.

From line 1, column 1; to line 2, column 77

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" version="1.0" class="in-text">
---

The style validates against the CSL 0.8.1 schema when I remove "version="1.0"" from the cs:style element.

cmbarton

Thanks. So far I have not been able to duplicate this. I just get the following message now:

IO Error: HTTP resource not retrievable. The HTTP status from the remote server was: 404.

I'm following the instructions on the dev page <http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_citation_styles>;

I've tried both servers listed (for version 0.8.1 and version 1.0) and get the same result.

I've also tried removing "version="1.0" from either and both of the statements you list above and replacing it with version="0.8.1"

Am I missing a step here?

Rintze

This works for me: http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8724/validation.png
(usually I paste in the style code [using "Text Field"] instead of the style URL [using "Address"], but both approaches work here. Obviously you're doing something different)

Also note that CSL 0.8.1 styles don't have the version attribute on the cs:style element (so you shouldn't include use "version="0.8.1"").

cmbarton

Thanks for the image. I guess I also had to strip off the line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

That validated against CSL 0.8.1. I've committed the changed file.

The weird thing is that I started with a validated CSL style, and the things that were not validating were things I did not change. When I drop the same styles from the repository into the validator, they do not validate. I assume that it is a version issue there too, but all of them reference CSL 1.0.

Rintze

There is no need to delete the first line ("<?xml ..."). And almost all styles in the Zotero Style Repository are in the CSL 0.8.1 format.

cmbarton

It would not validate without deleting it. Should I put the line back in with version="0.8.1" and encoding="UTF-8"?

When I checkout styles from the repository, all are listed as version="1.0"

dstillman

That's the XML version—nothing to do with CSL.

Rintze

Can you upload your style (with the first line) and another style from repository which is listed as version="1.0" to https://gist.github.com/ and post the URLs here? Then we can make sure we're looking at the same thing.

[edit]: As an addition to Dan's remark, see also http://xmlwriter.net/xml_guide/xml_declaration.shtml . So the "version="1.0"" on the line that starts with "<?xml ..." indicates that the style is written in XML 1.0. For CSL 1.0 styles, the line that starts with "<style ..." also includes "version="1.0"", indicating that the style is written in accordance to the CSL 1.0 specification. CSL 0.8.1 styles don't indicate the CSL version in the style.

cmbarton

I got this through validation with the xml line back in this time. For me at least, there is a little confusion in the docs over how these are supposed to look. But I appreciate your helping me get this one right. Note that I started with a valid style that was listed as CSL 1.0 and made changes. None of the changes I made raised an error in the validator, but some of the existing code did.