Adding "1.0" to kills style [solved]

MHSmith · November 10, 2010

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 · November 10, 2010

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 · November 10, 2010

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 · November 10, 2010

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 · November 10, 2010

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

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

Rintze · November 10, 2010

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 · November 10, 2010

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 · November 10, 2010

Who recommended that?

bdarcus · November 10, 2010

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 · November 10, 2010

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).