DataLinks and ID data types.

[Patrick Dowler]

OK, will write up the erratum without reference to xtype.

--
Patrick Dowler
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Victoria, BC, Canada


On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 10:17, François Bonnarel <
francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Le 03/04/2020 à 12:31, Mark Taylor a écrit :
> > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Pat,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 12:52:03PM -0700, Patrick Dowler wrote:
> >>> I think this is really a bug requiring an erratum, which I would be
> happy
> >>> to write up asap.
> >> I'm agreed on the bug nature, and I'm grateful for the the write-up
> >>
> >>> * side issue: I think it would be legit for someone to also specify an
> >>> xtype like xtype="uri" (because I think that's already permitted and
> >>> matches the whole meaning of xtype) but I don't know if I would write
> that
> >>> into the erratum or not... because I don't really think it needs to be
> >>> written it into the specification to be allowed. Would anyone actively
> want
> >>> this written in?
> >> If we do that at all, that ought to be a different erratum.
> > It's pushing the usage of Erratum a little bit.
>
> 2 cents
>
>       1 ) I agree the lack of typing of ID is an erratum and should be
> managed so.
>
>       2 ) if the xtype="uri" is to be done we can add this in DataLink 1.1
>
>       3 ) What is this xtype saying ? This "ID" PARAM string helps to
> build an URI (in combination with accessURL) but is not an uri per se ?
> Or is that xtype for the accessURL PARAM ?
>
> Cheers
>
> François
>
>
> >
> >> My question would be: What's the use case for that extra annotation?
> >> Is there anything that would evaluate it?
> > --
> > Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> > m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-9288776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
>
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