The XML Résumé Library is an XML Document Type Definition (DTD) and Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) file set for declaration, B2B exchange, and presentation of résumés.
This library is copyrighted, © 2000-2002 by Sean Kelly. See the copying conditions, license, and disclaimer.
This is version 1.4.0, released on 24 May 2002. For the latest version, please visit the website.
The XML Résumé Library includes the following:
dtd/resume.dtd - An XML DTD for describing
résumés. To make your own
résumé, create an XML document that validates
to this DTD.
xsl/us-html.xsl, xsl/us-text.xsl,
xsl/us-letter.xsl - XSLT files for transforming
XML résumés into HTML, plain text, and XSL
Formatting Objects (FO) with letter-size paper, respectively,
using terminology common to résumés in the
United States. These files let you present your
résumés on the web using HTML, in email or entry
forms that require plain text, or (after formatting with a FO
processor), as Portable Document Format (PDF) files suitable
for printing.
xsl/uk-html.xsl, xsl/uk-text.xsl,
xsl/uk-a4.xsl - As above, but using A4 size paper
and terminology common to résumés in the United
Kingdom (such as "CV" instead of "résumé").
xsl/fr-html.xsl, xsl/fr-text.xsl,
xsl/fr-a4.xsl - As above with A4 size paper,
but with terminology common to résumés in
France (such as "objectif professionnel" instead of
"professional objective").
In addition, there are two example résumés and a
Makefile that automates production of HTML, plain
text, and PDF output from an XML file using the Apache XML
Project tools and/or RenderX's XEP. See the
examples directory.
The following documents are available:
The XML Résumé Library uses the XML 1.0 DTD syntax. The XSL files are version 1.0. We have tested these files with the Apache XML Project's tools:
In addition, the library works quite well with the Saxon XSL processor and RenderX's XEP Formatting Objects processor.
There have been a number of changes to the DTD in version 1.4.0 of the XML Résumé Library. To ease migration to this new version, a stylesheet, 13x-140.xsl has been provided that will automatically convert a résé from version 1.3.1, 1.3.2, or 1.3.3 to the new version, 1.4.0.
The easiest way to use the stylesheet is with the Makefile.
To convert myresume.xml to myresume-140.xml, run this command:
make 13x-140 resume=myresume
To create your own résumés using the XML Résumé DTD, use the following document type declaration in your XML file:
<!DOCTYPE resume PUBLIC "-//Sean Kelly//DTD Resume 1.4.0//EN"
"http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/dtd/resume.dtd">
If you'd rather refer to a local copy of the DTD, change the
system-part of the DOCTYPE to refer to it with a
file URL, for example:
<!DOCTYPE resume PUBLIC "-//Sean Kelly//DTD Resume 1.4.0//EN"
"file:/usr/local/share/xml/dtd/resume.dtd">
Note that the iso-lat1.ent file is referenced by
the resume.dtd file, so if you move one, be sure
you move the other, too.
All available tags are documented in the Element Reference in the User Guide.
For an idea of how the tags work, see the comments in the
resume.dtd file and the example
résumé files.
You can format the XML resume into HTML for online viewing, into XSL Formatting Objects (FO) for rendering into PDF for printing, or into plain text.
The Getting Started section of the user guide will help you create your first XML résumé and convert it to HTML, PDF, and plain text. It contains a chapter on Converting an XML Résumé to Other Formats.
To create an HTML presentation of your résumé, run your XSLT engine on the XML file containing the résumé along with the one of the HTML stylesheet files:
us-html.xsl for US English
résumés.
uk-html.xsl for UK English CVs.fr-html.xsl for French
résumés.The stylesheet will turn your XML résumé into HTML using appropriate phrasing and terminology.
The XSL stylesheet generates generic HTML output and abuses no
special HTML tricks to create special formatting effects. You
can use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to customize the output to
your tastes. By default, the HTML output referencs a cascading
stylesheet named resume.css. Create this file and
publish it along with the HTML output to your web server to
customize the output. You can find some sample CSS files under
the css directory.
To specify a different stylesheet reference than
resume.css, give your XSLT engine a value for the
css.href parameter (how you do so depends on your
XSLT engine).
For information on the CSS classes available, and where they are used, please consult the CSS Class Reference in the User Guide.
To create a PDF presentation, follows these steps:
us-letter.xsl for US English
résumés on US-Letter size paper.
uk-a4.xsl for UK English CVs on A4 size paper.
fr-a4.xsl for French résumés on
A4 size paper.
This will transform your XML file into another XML file
that defines formatting objects (usually named with a
.fo extension).
To create a plain text presentation, run your XSLT engine on the résumé XML file and one of the following:
us-text.xsl for US English plain text
résumés.
uk-text.xsl for UK English plain text CVs.
fr-text.xsl for French plain text
résumés.
To automate formatting a résumé to all three
output formats, consider using the Makefile. It
uses the Java versions of the Apache XML tools Xerces/Xalan/FOP
to create both web and print presentations of a
résumé. Adjust the resume value
in the Makefile to point to the file name of the
résumeé you want to format, without the
.xml extension.
The Makefile is in the examples directory.
Several parameters are available to control how a résumé is formatted. They are documented in the XSL Parameter Reference in the User Guide.