NEWS

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emld 0.5.2 (2025-11-21)

Patch release, no public API changes, but several compatibility changes for newer dependencies.

• Fixed README URL links
• Fixed bibentry for CITATION (replaced citEntry)
• Removed LazyData: true without a data directory
• Fixed as_jsonlist.xml_node signature to match generic
• Updated spelling wordlist to handle common technical terms

emld 0.5.1 (2020-09-27)

• don't build vignette on machines that don't have packages listed in Suggests (these packages must only be used conditionally)

emld 0.5.0 (2020-07-08)

User-facing changes:

• Rewrote logic around how emld works with schemaLocation:

  • The schemaLocation argument on as_xml used to fill in a default value that pointed to a local copy of eml.xsd. Now, it automatically fills in a web-resolvable location to make validating documents easier out of the box.

  See #44 & #45.

• Re-worked the logic for handling schemaLocation when serializing to XML:

  • When schemaLocation is present on the emld object, it is used verbatim (no change in API here) regardless of the schemaLocation argument of as_xml.
  • When schemaLocation is absent on the emld object:
    • as_xml(..., schemaLocation = TRUE) causes a value to be guessed.
    • as_xml(..., schemaLocation = FALSE) explicitly prevents a value from being filled in when serialized.
    • as_xml(..., schemaLocation = "Some value) explicitly sets the provided value.

  See #44 & #45.

• emld::eml_validate no longer depends on schemaLocation to determine the correct XSD to use during schema validation and now uses two helpers (See below) to find the correct schema file. See #52 & #45.

• emld::eml_version now allows specifying the version without the eml- prefix, like `eml_version("2.1.1"), and will throw a warning when it gets output that doesn't 'look right rather than silently failing.

• Fixed a bug where the EML 2.1.1 units dictionary was being used for EML 2.2.0 docs which would cause spurious validation errors. See #56.

Developer-facing (non-exported) changes:

• Added two new helper methods:
  1. find_real_root_name(doc : xml_document) : list(prefix : character, name: character) which returns the namespace prefix and the local name of the root element on an xml_document.
  2. guess_root_schema(doc : xml_document) : list(module : character, version : character, namespace : character) which returns the module, schema version, and namespace URI of the root element on an xml_document.
• schemaLocation is now ignored during roundtrip testing because of the new (above) behavior of emld with respect to schemaLocation.
• Roundtrip testing can now handle documents that are supposed to be invalid but still roundtripped. Specify intentionally invalid files by adding "invalid" (case insensitive) to the filename in inst/tests.

Other changes:

• Minor tweaks to the README. Thanks @jeanetteclark

emld 0.4.0 (2020-02-05)

• Fixed serialization bug for references attributes #48
• Fixed validation bug: packageId is now used as an identifier for checking uniqueness, and no more errors for annotation elements in additionalMetadata. #49
• Fixed validation bug: XPath was referencing the element rather than the attribute references. #47

emld 0.3.0 (2019-10-11)

• Updated package to support version 2.2.0 of EML. #40. See the EML website for more information on the 2.2.0 release.
• Fixed a minor XML serialization issue with TextType nodes where extra whitespace was being added. #37.
• Relaxed eml_validate's behavior when validating custom units. #35.

emld 0.2.0 (2019-03-06)

• Implemented changes requested by rOpenSci review, as detailed in #30

emld 0.1.1

• Version submitted to rOpenSci review
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.