Part II. Reference
Part II. Reference
XML Résumé files are XML files composed mostly of elements. This part of the user guide documents the semantics (meaning) and syntax (structure) of all of the elements that you can use to construct a résumé.
To get started with creating a résumé, take a look Chapter 2, which is a tutorial on creating an XML résumé. Alternatively, you could examine the content model for the resume element, and drill down from there.
This sections documents changes to the XML Résumé Library DTD.
Warning
Deprecated elements will still be formatted, and are still valid elements in an XML résumé. However, their use is discouraged, and they will be removed in a future version of the DTD.
Changed elements: date can now be used in place of period in membership and job.
Changed elements: period can be used in place of date in award and clearance.
Changed element: major is no longer a required child of degree.
Changed element: The project element now supports an optional title attribute.
New elements: clearances and clearance.
New element: location. It may be contained in job, degree, or membership.
Change: institution and organization may now contain inline elements (emphasis, citation, url, and link).
New element: minor.
New element: lastModified.
New elements: fax, pager, and instantMessage. These may be contained in contact.
New attribute: the phone element now has a location attribute.
New attribute: the skill element now has a level attribute.
Change: the degree element may now contain multiple major elements.
Change: the contact element may now contain any number of its allowed child elements, and they may appear in any order.
Change: the resume element may now directly containskillarea elements.
Change: the skillset element may now directly contain skill elements.
Change: the degree element may now contain either a period or a date element. It could previously contain only a date.
Change: the artTitle and The bookTitle elements may now contain link elements.
Change: the referee element may now contain an optional title element and an optional organization element.
Change: the month element is no longer required in the date element. (However, it must appear if the date contains a dayOfMonth element.)
Deprecated element: skillareas. You may simply remove the start and end tags from your résumé.
Deprecated element: skills. You may simply remove the start and end tags from your résumé.
Deprecated element: pubDate. Replace it with a date element.
Deprecated elements: docpath, head, node, tail, label, and uri. Instances of these elements should be removed.
New element: link.
New attribute: the address element now has an optional format attribute.
New attributes: Added namespace support. More specifically, added
Change: employer may now contain inline elements (emphasis, citation, url, and link).
Deprecated element: break. Instances of this element should be removed.
Deprecated element: company. Instances of this element should be removed.
Deprecated element: street2. These elements should be converted to street elements.