VODML schema query

Brian Major major.brian at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 20:42:40 CEST 2018


Hi Paul,

Yes, we certainly should have named it schemaVersion instead of version.
Not sure if you saw this but Markus ran into this same clash and wrote
about it here:

    http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/grid/2018-June/002948.html

Cheers,
Brian

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:24 AM Paul Harrison <
paul.harrison at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> yes that does make sense  - we should have called the schema one
> “schemaVersion” to reduce the possibility of a name clash ;-) - I just ran
> into some issues with some code generation which did not make the
> distinction between an attribute and element of the same name on the same
> element.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul.
>
> On 2018-08 -23, at 14:30, Omar Laurino <olaurino at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> the version attribute was added to comply with the XML versioning policy,
> e.g. I believe:
>
> http://ivoa.net/documents/Notes/XMLVers/20180529/EN-schemaVersioning-1.0-20180529.html#tth_sEc2.2.1
>
> and indicates the version of the VODML schema.
>
> On the other hand, the version element specifies the version of the VODML
> model being described by the instance.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Omar.
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 3:58 PM Paul Harrison <
> paul.harrison at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have noticed that the VODML schema seems to have a mandatory element
>> version at link 250 - and an attribute(optional) at line 335 is there any
>> semantic meaning to the attribute version or is it a mistake?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>         Paul.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Paul Harrison
>> JBO, Manchester University
>> http://www.manchester.ac.uk/jodrellbank
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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>
>
> Dr. Paul Harrison
> JBO, Manchester University
> http://www.manchester.ac.uk/jodrellbank
>
>
>
>
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