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The ILCD Format package contains the following components:
sample_data
folder - contains sample datasets that can be viewed in a web browser (also see section Viewing datasets in the
browser below). Included are sample datasets with all possible fields present (sample_process.xml
etc.).
sample_data.zip
ZIP archive - serves as an example for the structure of a valid ILCD archive. Contains the same sample datasets as in the sample_data
folder.
schemas
folder - contains the XML Schema documents that define the format and contain metadata used for validation and display.
stylesheets
folder - contains XSLT stylesheets that are used to transform datasets to HTML (for instance to display them in the browser) and to validate
them.
html
folder - contains HTML representations of sample datasets. These can be viewed in a web browser independently of schemas and stylesheets.
doc
folder - contains documentation for this release.
doc/schemadoc
folder - contains comprehensive field-by-field documentation of the format.
The sample datasets all include a processing instruction containing a link to an XSLT stylesheet that will transform the document to HTML. This means you can open an ILCD XML document directly in your browser, which will perform this transformation on-the-fly and render an HTML representation of the document, allowing you to traverse all the links to other datasets that will be displayed in the same fashion.
This will require that the ILCD schemas and stylesheets are present in a folder next to the folder that contains the datasets, as both are needed for the on-the-fly transformation.
Basically this will work in all browsers, however, it is recommended to use Mozilla Firefox or Safari, as MS Internet Explorer may yield unexpected results when an external resource cannot be loaded.
In Mozilla Firefox 3.0, you will have to set the security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy
property to false
in the
about:config
dialog (enter about:config
in the browser's address bar) for this to work correctly, since Firefox ships with very strict default
security settings.