Merge pull request #785 from ripple/rr-xrp-ledger-rebranding

 Rebrand 'Ripple Consensus Ledger' to 'XRP Ledger'

README.md

@@ -1,23 +1,25 @@
 # ripple-lib
 
-A JavaScript API for interacting with Ripple in Node.js
+A JavaScript API for interacting with the XRP Ledger
 
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 [![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/ripple-lib.png)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/ripple-lib)
 
 ### Features
 
-+ Connect to a rippled server in Node.js
++ Connect to a `rippled` server from Node.js or a web browser
 + Issue [rippled API](https://ripple.com/build/rippled-apis/) requests
-+ Listen to events on the Ripple network (transaction, ledger, etc.)
-+ Sign and submit transactions to the Ripple network
++ Listen to events on the XRP Ledger (transaction, ledger, etc.)
++ Sign and submit transactions to the XRP Ledger
 
 ## Getting Started
 
+See also: [RippleAPI Beginners Guide](https://ripple.com/build/rippleapi-beginners-guide/)
+
 Install `ripple-lib` using npm:
 ```
-  $ npm install ripple-lib
+$ npm install ripple-lib
 ```
 
 Then see the [documentation](https://github.com/ripple/ripple-lib/blob/develop/docs/index.md) and [code samples](https://github.com/ripple/ripple-lib/tree/develop/docs/samples)
@@ -26,12 +28,12 @@ Then see the [documentation](https://github.com/ripple/ripple-lib/blob/develop/d
 
 1. Clone the repository
 2. `cd` into the repository and install dependencies with `npm install`
-3. `npm test` or `npm test --coverage` (`istanbul` will create coverage reports in coverage/lcov-report/`)
+3. `npm test` or `npm test --coverage` (`istanbul` will create coverage reports in `coverage/lcov-report/`)
 
 ## Generating Documentation
 
 The continuous integration tests require that the documentation stays up-to-date. If you make changes to the JSON schemas, fixtures, or documentation sources, you must update the documentation by running `npm run docgen`.
 
 ## More Information
 
-+ [Ripple Dev Portal](https://ripple.com/build/)
++ [Ripple Developer Center](https://ripple.com/build/)

docs/index.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   - [Boilerplate](#boilerplate)
   - [Offline functionality](#offline-functionality)
 - [Basic Types](#basic-types)
-  - [Ripple Address](#ripple-address)
+  - [Address](#address)
   - [Account Sequence Number](#account-sequence-number)
   - [Currency](#currency)
   - [Value](#value)
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@
 
 # Introduction
 
-RippleAPI is the official client library to the Ripple Consensus Ledger. Currently, RippleAPI is only available in JavaScript. 
+RippleAPI is the official client library to the XRP Ledger. Currently, RippleAPI is only available in JavaScript.
 Using RippleAPI, you can:
 
-* [Query transactions from the network](#gettransaction)
+* [Query transactions from the XRP Ledger history](#gettransaction)
 * [Sign](#sign) transactions securely without connecting to any server
-* [Submit](#submit) transactions to the Ripple Consensus Ledger, including [Payments](#payment), [Orders](#order), [Settings changes](#settings), and [other types](#transaction-types)
-* [Generate a new Ripple Address](#generateaddress)
+* [Submit](#submit) transactions to the XRP Ledger, including [Payments](#payment), [Orders](#order), [Settings changes](#settings), and [other types](#transaction-types)
+* [Generate a new XRP Ledger Address](#generateaddress)
 * ... and [much more](#api-methods).
 
 RippleAPI only provides access to *validated*, *immutable* transaction data.
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ const api = new RippleAPI();
 /* insert code here */
 ```
 
-Methods that depend on the state of the Ripple Consensus Ledger are unavailable in offline mode. To prepare transactions offline, you **must** specify  the `fee`, `sequence`, and `maxLedgerVersion` parameters in the [transaction instructions](#transaction-instructions). The following methods should work offline:
+Methods that depend on the state of the XRP Ledger are unavailable in offline mode. To prepare transactions offline, you **must** specify  the `fee`, `sequence`, and `maxLedgerVersion` parameters in the [transaction instructions](#transaction-instructions). You can use the following methods while offline:
 
 * [preparePayment](#preparepayment)
 * [prepareTrustline](#preparetrustline)
@@ -192,21 +192,21 @@ Methods that depend on the state of the Ripple Consensus Ledger are unavailable
 
 # Basic Types
 
-## Ripple Address
+## Address
 
 ```json
 "r9cZA1mLK5R5Am25ArfXFmqgNwjZgnfk59"
 ```
 
-Every Ripple account has an *address*, which is a base58-encoding of a hash of the account's public key. Ripple addresses always start with the lowercase letter `r`.
+Every XRP Ledger account has an *address*, which is a base58-encoding of a hash of the account's public key. XRP Ledger addresses always start with the lowercase letter `r`.
 
 ## Account Sequence Number
 
-Every Ripple account has a *sequence number* that is used to keep transactions in order. Every transaction must have a sequence number. A transaction can only be executed if it has the next sequence number in order, of the account sending it. This prevents one transaction from executing twice and transactions executing out of order. The sequence number starts at `1` and increments for each transaction that the account makes.
+Every XRP Ledger account has a *sequence number* that is used to keep transactions in order. Every transaction must have a sequence number. A transaction can only be executed if it has the next sequence number in order, of the account sending it. This prevents one transaction from executing twice and transactions executing out of order. The sequence number starts at `1` and increments for each transaction that the account makes.
 
 ## Currency
 
-Currencies are represented as either 3-character currency codes or 40-character uppercase hexadecimal strings. We recommend using uppercase [ISO 4217 Currency Codes](http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php) only. The string "XRP" is disallowed on trustlines because it is reserved for the Ripple native currency. The following characters are permitted: all uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, as well as the symbols `?`, `!`, `@`, `#`, `$`, `%`, `^`, `&`, `*`, `<`, `>`, `(`, `)`, `{`, `}`, `[`, `]`, and `|`.
+Currencies are represented as either 3-character currency codes or 40-character uppercase hexadecimal strings. We recommend using uppercase [ISO 4217 Currency Codes](http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php) only. The string "XRP" is disallowed on trustlines because it is reserved for the XRP Ledger's native currency. The following characters are permitted: all uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, as well as the symbols `?`, `!`, `@`, `#`, `$`, `%`, `^`, `&`, `*`, `<`, `>`, `(`, `)`, `{`, `}`, `[`, `]`, and `|`.
 
 ## Value
 A *value* is a quantity of a currency represented as a decimal string. Be careful: JavaScript's native number format does not have sufficient precision to represent all values. XRP has different precision from other currencies.
@@ -259,11 +259,11 @@ A transaction type is specified by the strings in the first column in the table
 Type | Description
 ---- | -----------
 [payment](#payment) | A `payment` transaction represents a transfer of value from one account to another. Depending on the [path](https://ripple.com/build/paths/) taken, additional exchanges of value may occur atomically to facilitate the payment.
-[order](#order) | An `order` transaction creates a limit order. It defines an intent to exchange currencies, and creates an order in the Ripple Consensus Ledger's order book if not completely fulfilled when placed. Orders can be partially fulfilled.
-[orderCancellation](#order-cancellation) | An `orderCancellation` transaction cancels an order in the Ripple Consensus Ledger's order book.
+[order](#order) | An `order` transaction creates a limit order. It defines an intent to exchange currencies, and creates an order in the XRP Ledger's order book if not completely fulfilled when placed. Orders can be partially fulfilled.
+[orderCancellation](#order-cancellation) | An `orderCancellation` transaction cancels an order in the XRP Ledger's order book.
 [trustline](#trustline) | A `trustline` transactions creates or modifies a trust line between two accounts.
-[settings](#settings) | A `settings` transaction modifies the settings of an account in the Ripple Consensus Ledger.
-[escrowCreation](#escrow-creation) | An `escrowCreation` transaction creates an escrow on the ledger, which locks XRP until a cryptographic condition is met or it expires. It is like an escrow service where the Ripple network acts as the escrow agent.
+[settings](#settings) | A `settings` transaction modifies the settings of an account in the XRP Ledger.
+[escrowCreation](#escrow-creation) | An `escrowCreation` transaction creates an escrow on the ledger, which locks XRP until a cryptographic condition is met or it expires. It is like an escrow service where the XRP Ledger acts as the escrow agent.
 [escrowCancellation](#escrow-cancellation) | An `escrowCancellation` transaction unlocks the funds in an escrow and sends them back to the creator of the escrow, but it will only work after the escrow expires.
 [escrowExecution](#escrow-execution) | An `escrowExecution` transaction unlocks the funds in an escrow and sends them to the destination of the escrow, but it will only work if the cryptographic condition is provided.
 
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ Executing a transaction with `RippleAPI` requires the following four steps:
 
 ## Transaction Fees
 
-Every transaction must destroy a small amount of XRP as a cost to send the transaction. This is also called a *transaction fee*. The transaction cost is designed to increase along with the load on the Ripple network, making it very expensive to deliberately or inadvertently overload the network.
+Every transaction must destroy a small amount of XRP as a cost to send the transaction. This is also called a *transaction fee*. The transaction cost is designed to increase along with the load on the XRP Ledger, making it very expensive to deliberately or inadvertently overload the peer-to-peer network that powers the XRP Ledger.
 
 You can choose the size of the fee you want to pay or let a default be used. You can get an estimate of the fee required to be included in the next ledger closing with the [getFee](#getfee) method.
 
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ maxLedgerVersionOffset | integer | *Optional* Offset from current validated legd
 sequence | [sequence](#account-sequence-number) | *Optional* The initiating account's sequence number for this transaction.
 signersCount | integer | *Optional* Number of signers that will be signing this transaction.
 
-We recommended that you specify a `maxLedgerVersion` so that you can quickly determine that a failed transaction will never succeeed in the future. It is impossible for a transaction to succeed after the network ledger version exceeds the transaction's `maxLedgerVersion`. If you omit `maxLedgerVersion`, the "prepare*" method automatically supplies a `maxLedgerVersion` equal to the current ledger plus 3, which it includes in the return value from the "prepare*" method.
+We recommended that you specify a `maxLedgerVersion` so that you can quickly determine that a failed transaction will never succeeed in the future. It is impossible for a transaction to succeed after the XRP Ledger's consensus-validated ledger version exceeds the transaction's `maxLedgerVersion`. If you omit `maxLedgerVersion`, the "prepare*" method automatically supplies a `maxLedgerVersion` equal to the current ledger plus 3, which it includes in the return value from the "prepare*" method.
 
 ## Transaction ID
 
@@ -3694,7 +3694,7 @@ return api.submit(signedTransaction)
 
 `generateAddress(): {address: string, secret: string}`
 
-Generate a new Ripple address and corresponding secret.
+Generate a new XRP Ledger address and corresponding secret.
 
 ### Parameters
 

docs/src/basictypes.md.ejs

@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 # Basic Types
 
-## Ripple Address
+## Address
 
 ```json
 "r9cZA1mLK5R5Am25ArfXFmqgNwjZgnfk59"
 ```
 
-Every Ripple account has an *address*, which is a base58-encoding of a hash of the account's public key. Ripple addresses always start with the lowercase letter `r`.
+Every XRP Ledger account has an *address*, which is a base58-encoding of a hash of the account's public key. XRP Ledger addresses always start with the lowercase letter `r`.
 
 ## Account Sequence Number
 
-Every Ripple account has a *sequence number* that is used to keep transactions in order. Every transaction must have a sequence number. A transaction can only be executed if it has the next sequence number in order, of the account sending it. This prevents one transaction from executing twice and transactions executing out of order. The sequence number starts at `1` and increments for each transaction that the account makes.
+Every XRP Ledger account has a *sequence number* that is used to keep transactions in order. Every transaction must have a sequence number. A transaction can only be executed if it has the next sequence number in order, of the account sending it. This prevents one transaction from executing twice and transactions executing out of order. The sequence number starts at `1` and increments for each transaction that the account makes.
 
 ## Currency
 
-Currencies are represented as either 3-character currency codes or 40-character uppercase hexadecimal strings. We recommend using uppercase [ISO 4217 Currency Codes](http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php) only. The string "XRP" is disallowed on trustlines because it is reserved for the Ripple native currency. The following characters are permitted: all uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, as well as the symbols `?`, `!`, `@`, `#`, `$`, `%`, `^`, `&`, `*`, `<`, `>`, `(`, `)`, `{`, `}`, `[`, `]`, and `|`.
+Currencies are represented as either 3-character currency codes or 40-character uppercase hexadecimal strings. We recommend using uppercase [ISO 4217 Currency Codes](http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php) only. The string "XRP" is disallowed on trustlines because it is reserved for the XRP Ledger's native currency. The following characters are permitted: all uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, as well as the symbols `?`, `!`, `@`, `#`, `$`, `%`, `^`, `&`, `*`, `<`, `>`, `(`, `)`, `{`, `}`, `[`, `]`, and `|`.
 
 ## Value
 A *value* is a quantity of a currency represented as a decimal string. Be careful: JavaScript's native number format does not have sufficient precision to represent all values. XRP has different precision from other currencies.

docs/src/generateAddress.md.ejs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 `generateAddress(): {address: string, secret: string}`
 
-Generate a new Ripple address and corresponding secret.
+Generate a new XRP Ledger address and corresponding secret.
 
 ### Parameters
 

docs/src/introduction.md.ejs

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Introduction
 
-RippleAPI is the official client library to the Ripple Consensus Ledger. Currently, RippleAPI is only available in JavaScript. 
+RippleAPI is the official client library to the XRP Ledger. Currently, RippleAPI is only available in JavaScript.
 Using RippleAPI, you can:
 
-* [Query transactions from the network](#gettransaction)
+* [Query transactions from the XRP Ledger history](#gettransaction)
 * [Sign](#sign) transactions securely without connecting to any server
-* [Submit](#submit) transactions to the Ripple Consensus Ledger, including [Payments](#payment), [Orders](#order), [Settings changes](#settings), and [other types](#transaction-types)
-* [Generate a new Ripple Address](#generateaddress)
+* [Submit](#submit) transactions to the XRP Ledger, including [Payments](#payment), [Orders](#order), [Settings changes](#settings), and [other types](#transaction-types)
+* [Generate a new XRP Ledger Address](#generateaddress)
 * ... and [much more](#api-methods).
 
 RippleAPI only provides access to *validated*, *immutable* transaction data.

docs/src/offline.md.ejs

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const api = new RippleAPI();
 /* insert code here */
 ```
 
-Methods that depend on the state of the Ripple Consensus Ledger are unavailable in offline mode. To prepare transactions offline, you **must** specify  the `fee`, `sequence`, and `maxLedgerVersion` parameters in the [transaction instructions](#transaction-instructions). The following methods should work offline:
+Methods that depend on the state of the XRP Ledger are unavailable in offline mode. To prepare transactions offline, you **must** specify  the `fee`, `sequence`, and `maxLedgerVersion` parameters in the [transaction instructions](#transaction-instructions). You can use the following methods while offline:
 
 * [preparePayment](#preparepayment)
 * [prepareTrustline](#preparetrustline)