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KANJI XML File
Developed by Duane J. May
Project page: http://kanjixml.sourceforge.net/
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Release 0.2

Added the following information:
-- Shift JIS codes
-- Index from Tohsaku's books the Yookoso Series. Book num, chapter, index

-- the jis xml tag is now jis208 added jis212 tag and sjis tag
   currently no kanji of the jis212 are in the file. this will come soon.

-- expect furthur structure changes until I remove the alpha status.

-- I am making a size versus use choice. Currently I am thinking
   that the file may grow to a very large size very quickly.
   I think this is OK and I will be releasing the XSLT files
   soon to extract just the info that you want. 

   By doing this you can extract any data in any format you want 
   by following the example XSLT stylesheets and creating a Stylesheet of your
   own. 

   If you like or dislike this decision please let me know.
   Otherwise you may not complain.
   
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Release 0.1

This is the inital public release of the XML and Schema files.
It contains the 6,355 kanji in the JIS X 0208-1990 standard.
With their mappings to

-- the Unicode encoding of the kanji.
-- JIS X 0208-1990 code
-- the radical (Bushu) number.
-- the historical or classical radical number
-- the frequency-of-use ranking.
-- the Jouyou grade level.
-- general-use characters.
-- Jinmeiyou ("for use in names") characters.
-- the index number in the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary, edited by Jack Halpern.
-- the index number in the Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary, edited by Andrew Nelson.
-- the index number in The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, edited by John Haig.
-- these are the codes developed by Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bojinsha).
-- the index numbers used by Jack Halpern in his Kanji Learners Dictionary.
-- the index numbers used in P.G. O'Neill's Essential Kanji.
-- the SKIP pattern code. Developed by Jack Halpern.
-- the stroke count.
-- the index codes in the reference books by Spahn & Hadamitzky, The Kanji Dictionary
-- the index codes in the reference books by Spahn & Hadamitzky, Kanji & Kana book.
-- the "Four Corner" code for that kanji.
-- the index number and volume.page respectively of the kanji in the 13-volume Morohashi "Daikanwajiten.
-- the index number used in "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall.
-- the index number in the Gakken Kanji Dictionary ("A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage").
-- the index number used in "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig.
-- the index number in "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill.
-- the romanized form of the Korean reading(s) of the kanji.
-- the "Pinyin" of each kanji, i.e. the (Mandarin or Beijing) Chinese romanization.
-- japanese readings in katakana, hiragana, and romaji.
-- prefixes, suffixes denoted
-- okurigana
-- nanori
-- Alexander Kask index on his Kanji Cards by Tuttle.

of all the information origianly in the Kanjidic fie the
following has not yet made it into the KanjiXML file.
-- a cross-reference code.
-- a mis-classification code.