METS Java Toolkit, Version 1.5

METS Java Toolkit News

1 Releases

• Version 1.5.2 (2006-07-03)
  • Add the PREMIS metadata enumeration type [OIS bug #1530]
  • Permit empty elements to be serialized with end tags [OIS bug #1531]

• Version 1.5.1 (2006-04-03)
  • Conformance with METS 1.4 and 1.5 schemas [OIS bug #1379, 1380]
  • Permit reading of an empty element [OIS bug #1378]
  • Correct bug reading element [OIS bug #1378]

• Version 1.3.9 (2005-11-29)
  • Enforce a single name/value pair for attributes of type IDREF [OIS bug #1231]
    (Affecting the Area, Fptr, and SmLink classes)

• Version 1.3.8 (2005-09-26)
  • Correct error with ID/IDREF validation where an ADMID IDREF refers to a TechMD section (or one of its siblings) rather than an AdmSec [OIS bug #1101]
  • Use fully package-qualified references to edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.helper.Enum to avoid namespace collision with the standard Java Enum class [OIS bug #1110]

• Version 1.3.7 (2005-07-28)
  • Add option to suppress the XML declaration [OIS bug #989]. New method:

    Mets.writer(MetsWriter w, boolean noXmlDecl);

  • Add options to suppress the METS, XLink, and XSI namespaces and schemas from appearing in the element [OIS bug #989]. New constructor and method:

    Mets.Mets(boolean noSchema);
    Mets.reader(MetsReader r, boolean noSchema);

• Version 1.3.6 (2005-06-24)
  • Allow entity and character references to appear anywhere in attribute values or PCDATA, including the initial character position [OIS bug #923]

• Version 1.3.5 (2005-04-29)
  • Correct bug reading entity references in MetsReader.getText () [OIS bug #723]

• Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-04)
  • Enhancement [OIS bug #568] to add "no escape" versions of the MetsWriter.attribute() and attributeValue() methods, to permit specification of attributes with pre-escaped text values

• Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-21)
  • Bug fix [OIS bug #175] decode method in Base64 class now handles whitespace accurately
  • Allow namespace declarations by all relevant elements (e.g., <mets>, <dmdSec>, <amdSec>, <techMD>, <rightsMD>, <sourceMD>, <digiprovMD>, <mdWrap>, <fileSec>, <fileGrp>, <file>, <FContent>, <xmlData>
  • Use the "official" XLink namespace URI <http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink> rather than the URI defined in the METS schema

• Version 1.3.2 (2004-07-06)
  • Bug fix [OIS bug #156] to allow arbitrary number of <smLink> elements in the content model of <structLink>
  • Bug fix [OIS bug #157]: invalid use of OTHERTYPE, OTHERMDTYPE, OTHERLOCTYPE, etc. attributes does not cause the throwing of an exception, only the display of a warning message to standard error; this is a violation of the informal METS semantics but not of the METS schema (since this is not a condition that can be represented in Schema)
  • Bug fix [OIS bug #158] to deal with sequences of empty <Div> siblings
  • Bug fix [OIS bug #169] to deal with all element and attribute namespaces properly

• Version 1.3.1 (2004-05-04)
  • Ability to add additional namespace-qualified schema definitions to the top-level <mets> element
  • Added File.setCHECKSUMTYPE() method
  • Removed requirement for ID attributes by <MdSec> elements
  • Ability to incorporate arbitrary XML (unvalidated, unsescaped) into a METS file
  • Change license terms to the GNU Lesser General Public License

• Version 1.3.0 (2004-03-19)
  • Updated xlink href in Mets.java to match href in METS schema
  • Bug fix [OIS bug #11] when reading empty xml tags in Any.java
  • Added support for writing binary data with MetsWriter
  • Added decode() method to Base64.java
  • Conform to METS v1.3 (2003-05-05)
    • Add MODS value to MDTYPE
    • Modify <file> attributes so that instead of just CHECKSUM we have CHECKSUM and CHECKSUMTYPE, where CHECKSUMTYPE is a controlled vocabulary as follows: HAVAL, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, TIGER, WHIRLPOOL
    • Alter <BehaviorSec> to make it recursive, and add a new behavior element to wrap mechanism and interfaceDef elements