0.3.5-beta.3

• Updates the dependency on the colored package to require v2.0.0

0.3.5-beta.1

• Improves handling of groups with undefined classes, i.e, those not defined by the NeXus standard.
• Adds an environment variable, NX_DEFINITIONS, which can be used to define the path to the NeXus definitions directory.
• Updates the NXroot and NXobject classes to latest NIAC proposal.
• Fixes an issue with parsing groups with NXroot as parent.

0.3.4-beta.1

• Improves the hierarchy of log messages when only outputting warning or error messages.
• Fixes the output of the path to the definitions directory when it is stored in the package.
• Updates the installed version of the NXroot NXDL file to the latest version in the NeXus definitions repository.

0.3.3-beta.1

• Fixes a bug in Python 3.8 and 3.9 that prevented the definitions directories from being converted to regular path-like objects.

0.3.2-beta.1

• Adds checks for links required in application definitions
• Adds extra base classes that are allowed in all other base classes to the NXobject class
• Adds support for nameType="specified"
• Fixes the order of output fields when validating applications

0.3.1-beta.1

• Fixes the default text color when the terminal is in dark mode.

0.3.0-beta.1

• Adds objects that are allowed in all base classes to the NXobject class (NIAC approved inheritance of base class objects from the NXobject class)
• Removes inheritance from the NXroot class to prevent unwanted objects at the file level
• Adds support for partial names, i.e., those that use uppercase characters as placeholders for the actual name
• Checks that axis sizes match the signal shape
• Inputs tables of symbols and checks for common values within each group
• Adds contributed definitions to the repository and searches them when base classes and/or application definitions are not found
• Prints the total number of warnings and errors at the end of the validation
• Colorizes the output to print error messages in red and warning messages in orange
• Customizes the width of printed lines to the terminal size
• Prevents exceptions when an externally linked files are not present
• Fixes handling of groups that have explicit names in the base classes

0.2.0-beta.1

• Adds a switch to redefine the directory containing the base class and application definitions.
• Improves the validation of the axes attribute.
• Reads the ignoreExtraGroups, ignoreExtraFields, and ignoreExtraAttributes attributes in the base class definitions and uses their values in selecting the log level.

0.1.0-beta.1

First beta version of the nxvalidate package.