xVRML Schema Change Log

Change Log for xVRML Schema
in reverse choronological order

      v 0.33.01 beta 1 NOV 05 - jeffs
      PixelTexture 
        fixed pixelValues and numComponents attributes to add regex
      All elements
        everything now has at least an optional name attribute
      changed all LineInts to just hold the regex and eliminated LineInts element
      every element must now have addChild, removeChild,  getChildren, and setChildren functions

      v 0.32.08.07 beta 20 JUL 05 - jeffs
      clarified much lighting documentation
      removed NavigationInfo node
        NavigationInfo.headlight attribute becomes World.headlight
        NavigationInfo.visibilityLimit attribute becomes World.visibilityLimit
        NavigationInfo.type becomes Avatar.navigation
        NavigationInfo.speed becomes Avatar.speed
      AudioClip fixed startTime and stopTime to be required

      v 0.32.08.06 beta 5 JUN 05 - jeffs
      added stepValue to Avatar [default 0.75 m]
      
      added optional attribute "solid" with default="true" to:
        Box
        Cone
        Cylinder
        Sphere
        [already present in Extrusion]
      
      added VRML97-style defaults to Extrusion:
        crossSection default="1.0 1.0 1.0 -1.0 -1.0 -1.0 -1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0"
        orientation default="0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0"
        scale default="1.0 1.0"
        spine default="0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0"

      v 0.32.08.05 beta 25 APR 05 - jeffs
      I have been bad about keeping this up to date
      
      first serious proposal for cleanly specifying Proto-related nodes
      Specified exact choices for Avatar.children and removed Viewpoint
      changed defaults for Avatar.cameraOffset and Viewpoint.position
      specified how to deal with four basic configurations and interactions possible:
        No Avatars and no Viewpoints in file
        No Avatars but at least one Viewpoint in file
        At least one Avatar but no Viewpoints in file
        At least one Avatar and at least one Viewpoint in the file
      fixed problems with Use inside appearance 
          as Material and/or Texture replacements
      made Avatar.name required
      removed mid-statement in Use docs about Avatar.

      v 0.32.08.03 beta 16 MAR 05 - jeffs
      Folded TextureTransform into Texture
      added ProtoList ProtoDefinition and ProtoInstance
      cleaned up some more annotation.documentation nodes
      added beginnings of a SAX loader

      v 0.32.08.02 beta 10 FEB 05 - jeffs
      Fixed Shape.appearance and Shape.geometry so Use is cleaner (thanks Dave).
      Use can also replace any of the following now:
        Shape.appearance
        Shape.appearance.Material
        Shape.appearance.Texture
        Shape.appearance.TextureTransform
        Shape.geometry
        Shape.geometry.Box
        Shape.geometry.Cone
        Shape.geometry.[etc]

      v 0.32.08.01 beta 9 FEB 05 - jeffs
      Fixed Sound node, so now it must contain an AudioClip or a MovieTexture.
      Remove spurious documentation entries about affirm and assert.

    v 0.32.07 beta 6 FEB 05 - jeffs
    Following feedback from the list and much discussion,
      simplified Use node to just point to a target, and to demand that
      target appear before Use as well as not being an ancestor.
      it is now up to the application to verify legal type used.

    v0.32.05 beta 30 JAN 05 - jeffs
    simplified definition of groupingAndChildrenNodes
      removing one level of indirection from generated src
      without having any impact on instance documents
    added LightColor type with white and opaque as default
      then changed DirectionalLight PointLight SpotLight Fog colors
      to be of type LightColor instead of SFColor (which defaults to black and opaque)
    added required attribute "affirm" of type "xs:NCName" to Use 
      so author must affirm what the type of the target will be when it is resolved
      ("assert" is a more attribute name, but is a reserved word)

    v0.32.04 beta 28 JAN 05 - jeffs
    all hail the great regex guru Mike Axelrod
      and many many thanks for help with complex constraints
    cleaned up documentation for Use
    significantly added to documentation for Anchor
      using old VRML97 docs for guidance
      (it is good to build on the shoulders of giants)
    discussion of SFColor and MFColor
      made me look at them again.
      we had agreed on defaulting to black opaque but 
        Schema and schema-docs were not consistent so
        made SFColor defaults conform to [RGBA = 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0.]
    discussion of all-triangles vs ngons in IFS.coordIndex
      made me remove all-triangles restriction and put back 
      "many runs of non-negative ints, each run terminated by a -1"

v0.32.03 beta 18 Jan 05 - jeffs
  due to popular demand, put creaseAngle back into
    ElevationGrid
    Extrusion
    and IndexedFaceSet

v0.32.02 beta 17 JAN 05 - jeffs
      fixed MFFloat SFVec2f MFVec2f SFVec3f MFVec3f 
        - added support for scientific notation
        - fractional part now optional 
      fixed MFColor
        - fractional part is now optional

v0.32.01 beta 15 JAN 05 - jeffs
      added types FaceInts and LineInts 
      (see IndexedFaceSet and IndexedLineSet)
      IndexedFaceSet.coordIndex and IndexedFaceSet.texCoordIndex
        now enforce runs of (three non-negative integers followed by a -1)
      IndexedLineSet.coordIndex 
        now enforces runs of (non-negative integers followed by a -1)

v0.32 beta 10 JAN 05 - jeffs
      fixed rotations to follow common default pattern and
        to specify order they are to be applied.
      added Use for 
        Shape.appearance
        Shape.appearance.Material
        Shape.appearance.Texture
        Shape.geometry
      removed creaseAngle from
        IndexedFaceSet
        Extrusion
        ElevationGrid

v0.31 beta - 14 DEC 04 - jeffs
      dropped transparency from Material
        but kept alpha in individual colors
      dropped everything from Avatar but
        mass, name, children, and cameraOffset (formerly "position")
      added Use and allow in groupingAndChildrenNodes

v0.30.03 beta - 5 Oct 04 - jeffs
       changed SFRotation into a simple type for use as an attribute
         which meant I had to fiddle a bit with a number of nodes
       also added name attribute to Texture (not sure how I missed that)
       changed TextureTransform to all attributes

v0.30.02 beta - 4 OCT 04 - jeffs
      changed the following to use an attribute of type xs:AnyUri
      rather than element of type MFUri:
        Anchor, Background, ImageTexture, AudioClip, Inline, 
        MovieTexture, Script

v0.30.01 beta - 29 SEP 04 - jeffs
       cleanup of one boo-boo

v0.30.00 beta - 29 SEP 04 - jeffs
       cleanup and freeze

v0.23.01 beta - 27 SEP 04 - jeffs
      Avatars now all in AvatarList at top level of World

v0.23 beta - 17 JUL 04 - jeffs
      moved Avatar boundObjects to PlayerCharacter Possessions

v0.22 beta - 11 JUL 04 - jeffs
      minor fixes to Avatar and Viepoint nodes

v0.21.01 beta - 28 APR 04 - jeffs
      moved Avatar to groupingAndChildrenNodes choices
      moved Viewpoint into Avatar
      added position attribute to Avatar
      removed avatarSize from NavigationInfo as redundant

v0.21.00 beta - 20 APR 04 - jeffs
      added Route to groupingAndChildrenNodes choices
      added Avatar node
      added Avatar to World node

v0.20.02 beta - 2 APR 04 - jeffs
      added targetNamespace
      various simplifications of custom types

v0.20.01 beta - 27 MAR 04 - jeffs
      corrected attribute "name" to be of type "xs:ID"

v0.20.00 beta - 24 MAR 04 - jeffs
      this rev is now a release 1.0 candidate

v0.19.03 beta - 22 MAR 04 - jeffs
      fixed some locally-defined types for better constraints on data
      put the rest (I think) of the legal children into 
        groupingAndChildrenNodes
      fixed Extrusion
      about time to freeze this Schema for a while

v0.19.02 beta - 21 MAR 04 - jeffs
      got rid of some types no longer in use
      fiddled with some nodes to make them less verbose
      added annotations about multi-field elements which should be changed
          to make them less verbose (like the various Set nodes)
      fixed a bunch of the multiple-entry fields

v0.19.01 beta - 19 MAR 04 - jeffs
      folded one-use type texture into Appearance
      simplified Box
      changed specially-named 3f whateverCenter elements 
        into ref to Center element
      Same for BBoxCenter
      Same for BBoxCenter
      changed complexType "legalChildrenNodes" into element "Children"
        and changed corresponding type declarations into ref declarations

v0.19 beta - 15 MAR 04 - jeffs
      cleared up postential namespace collisions

v0.18 - 14 MAR 04 - jeffs
      waves his hands and declares this version to be a beta

v0.17 - 13 MAR 04 - jeffs
      changed id attribute to name attribute
      modified legalChildNode and similar

v0.16 - 12 MAR 04 - jeffs
      changing things to set specific defaults rather than generic values
      eliminated Use
      changed Route to use xlink
      added "id" attribute where appropriate
      **** NEED TO DO: fix so children of World can be Shapes but not geometry

v0.15 - 13 JAN 04 - jeffs
      added xlink namespace
      trying out defining Route via xlink

v0.14 - 8 JAN 04 - jeffs
      changed Sphere radius from element to attribute

v0.13 - 30 Dec 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
      fixed FontStyle node
      generated first try at SAX1-oriented classes
      generated first try at DOM-oriented classes
      generated first try at javadocs

v0.12 - 29 Dec 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
      fixed Shape node
      fixed Script node
      added Geometry node
      redid Use node

v0.11 - 27 Dec 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
       more node scrubbing
       moved NavigationInfo and WorldInfo out of legalChildrenNodes and into World
         [now one and only one of ea allowed]
       brought back "Use"; defId (string) attribute points to node which must:
           (a) be in-scope, and
           (b) already have been loaded

v0.10 - 23 Dec 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
       cleaned up more nodes
       continuing alphabetizing node-placement
       beginning to build nodesRef document

v0.09 - 12 Dec 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
       fleshed out some more nodes (getting close to an early-release version)
       placed comments indicating where GeoVRML stuff will go later
       cleaned up some nodes
       began alphabetizing node-placement to make spec easier to write

v0.08 - 23 Nov 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
        fleshed out some more nodes
        getting closer to having drafts of all nodes in place
        next pass should be to make nodes better and test instance

v0.07 - 22 Nov 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
        okay, time for some enumerations
        fleshed out some nodes

v0.06 - 21 Nov 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
        changed Sound element source attribute to xs:anyURI
        eliminated some nodes not in VRML spec
        [going back to using VRML spec as base rather than X3D docs]

v0.05 - 3 Aug 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
        more nodes-creation gruntwork today

v0.04 - 2 Aug 03 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
        more nodes-creation gruntwork today

v 0.03 - 1 August 2003 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
        more fiddling excess elements into types
        created grouping and non-grouping nodes
        created at least empty versions of all nodes (I think)
        
        I don't understand the GeoWhatever nodes enough 
        to work them yet...
        I yanked them and they can be in a separate Schema 
        which in turn includes this Schema
        [can you say "profile"? sure you can...]

v 0.02 - 29 July 2003 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
        turned a bunch of elements into types
        removed non-useful definitions of  MFwhatever elements

v 0.01 - 23 July 2003 - jeffs@it.rit.edu
       begin first cut at redoing VRML97 [aka ISO/IEC 14772-1:1997] as xVRML
       starting with the grouping nodes

Change Log for xVRML Schemain reverse choronological order

Change Log for xVRML Schema
in reverse choronological order