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This release fixes several bugs and delivers some minor new features. Some primitive support has been added for targetted resumes. A new top-level "Clearances" section has been added to the schema. Security clearances can be listed here. The FO and HTML stylesheets have been updated to close a number of bugs and feature requests.

Date parsing is now more flexible, allowing days and months to be stored in several different ways. Similarly, date output now supports more formats, controlled by two new parameters. Several bugs were fixed in both the HTML and FO stylesheets. Several changes were made to the Relax NG schema.

This release allows a reference to a photograph in the personal information section which can be rendered in several ways. Nationalities, languages and licenses are now supported in the personal information section. XEP users can now produce PDF resumes with the standard PDF document security features.

This latest release of ResXML sees the HTML stylesheet brought up to scratch: the HTML and FO stylesheets are essentially on par now. Anything that you can generate as print output can now be rendered to HTML for browser display, and for dumping to plain text if required. There are also some minor architectural changes in the code to make the stylesheets more efficient.

ResXML 0.1.2 sees FOP support brought as close to par with XEP support as possible. Notable improvements for FOP users include: PDF bookmarks, correctly rendered title page, and workarounds for residual errors and warnings from FOP.

This is a minor update to the first SourceForge alpha release. Minor changes were made to the Relax NG schema. Some examples now appear in the examples subdirectory.

The FAQ from the old ResXML site at Logic Squad has been added to the Docs section on SourceForge. It remains mostly useful. There are even rudimentary instructions for using ResXML to publish your own resume.

This inaugural code release from SourceForge contains the current state of the project. While very much an alpha release, the current XSLFO stylesheet is perfectly capable of producing usable output.

ResXML has begun the move to SourceForge. Paul Hoadley and Phil Roberts have moved most of the code into CVS, and have filed the existing bug reports and RFEs into the SourceForge system. We hope to release a tarball soon. Meanwhile, the old ResXML resources continue to exist at Logic Squad:

http://logicsquad.net/xml/resume/