compliance assurance / metadata response

[Markus Dolensky]

Dear Ulrike,

 > Another question on metadata response: in section 6.2 it says: "the
 > columns that are returned by a spectrum query are described with the
 > FIELD elements exactly as they are described in a normal spectrum query
 > response. " And later "Each input parameter should be listed as a PARAM
 > element..."
 > In the sample Metadata Query Response (Appendix B) PARAM is used for
 > both input and output parameters.
 > So which version is the correct one?

FIELD and PARAM are interchangeable. If a value is constant for a given 
query response it need not be repeated in each row and one can use a 
PARAM instead.

See the note immediately preceding section 7 on how to build a metadata 
response.

Greetings,
Markus