FYI there should soon be a new version of the DFDL spec. This has
additional errata fixes in it, and a ...

*BIG NEW FEATURE*: a clickable property index for all properties.

Plus hyperlinks within the document to sections all work properly now (in
both PDF and HTML versions) and there are no broken links.

Sneak peak (not quite done yet, but hey....) at:
https://github.com/user-attachments/files/34556619/dfdl.pdf?raw=true

All this is enabled by conversion of the spec into ASCIIDOC, and a docker
and makefile driven tool chain that creates both PDF and HTML versions of
the spec.

(and.... even creates an ISO-formatted version of it for submission as an
update to the ISO/IEC 23415:2024 standard document.)

Yes, every property definition now has a URL, which can definitely be
useful, but along the way the tool chain creates an XML version of the spec
as an intermediate form. This XML may be useful for hooking into the VSCode
GUI for DFDL for example, in some way richer than just using the property
URLs.

Many thanks are due to Aaron Bauman for making this happen.

Mike Beckerle
Apache Daffodil | daffodil.apache.org
OGF DFDL Workgroup | www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/standards/dfdl/dfdl

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