Article Authoring DTD Version 2.1

Version 2.1

[Updated versions of the DTD have been released. The current version is available here.]

Version 2.1 was released on November 14, 2005. Following is a list of updates.

The files for Version 2.1 are available:

• by anonymous FTP: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/archive_dtd/articleauthoring/

• on the web: articleauthoring.dtd

The Tag Library for version 2.1 is here: http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/2.1/

Introduction

The Authoring DTD was created version 2.1 of the DTD Suite, so it began life as Version 2.1. The Authoring DTD is tighter and more prescriptive than any of the other DTDs as it was intended to make a smaller, more manageable subset of the elements for use in an XML editor.

Notes on Version 2.1

Modeling related to the Suite changes discussed in this report include:

• Permissions —The new <permissions> element was placed in the parameter entity %display-back-matter.class; but, since there is not backlog of tagged document to consider, the <copyright> element was not.

• Order in Display Back Matter — A new parameter entity %display-back-matter; was created that has the same contents as the display back matter class, but in sequential order. This new entity was used instead of the class in all sequential uses of %display-back-matter.class;, for example, inside Figure.

• List TypesThe Suite default for the “list-type” attribute is CDATA, with a list of suggested values. The Authoring DTD has reduced the types to a specified set: “bullet | order | simple”.

• Translated Title — is not used in the Authoring DTD.