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The purpose of this repository is to maintain Markdown sources for draft revisions of the OData core and extension specifications.

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Documents are generated from Markdown sources using Node.js modules described here and Pandoc.

1. Download and install Node.js, verify via node -v
2. Download and install Pandoc, verify via pandoc -v
3. Download and install git, verify via git -v
4. Optionally download and install GitHub Desktop
5. Clone this repository
6. In the local repository folder run npm install, verify via npm test

• npm start starts a local web server to serve the HTML pages at http://localhost:8080

  • The HTML pages are rebuilt and the browser is auto-refreshed whenever one of the source files changes

• npm run build builds HTML and Markdown files for publication on https://oasis-tcs.github.io/odata-specs/

  • Do this before pushing to GitHub to avoid build errors

• npm run pdf converts the HTML files to PDF

  • This is only necessary for publication to the OASIS Library