Broken VOSITables-v1.0.xsd (fwd)

Andre Schaaff andre.schaaff at astro.unistra.fr
Fri Nov 7 15:09:12 CET 2014


Hello,

No problem on the GWS side.
Thank you Mark.

André

Le 07/11/2014 14:21, Mark Taylor a écrit :
> Dear IVOADOC,
>
> as per the message I sent to the grid mailing list a week or so ago
> (forwarded here; also
> http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/grid/2014-October/002677.html)
> I would like to request replacement of the broken VOSITables
> schema at
> http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd
> with the one attached to this message.
>
> Since nobody has objected to this suggestion on-list since I posted it,
> I think this is uncontroversial, but if you'd like to check
> with the TCG or GWS chair etc, feel free
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
> --
> 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/
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:38:13 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk>
> To: Grid and Web Services WG <grid at ivoa.net>
> Subject: Broken VOSITables-v1.0.xsd
>
> Dear GWS,
>
> the VOSITables-v1.0.xsd schema available from this (canonical) URL:
>
>     http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd
>
> is currently (and probably has always been) broken.  It mistakenly
> targets the namespace
>
>     http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSICapabilities/v1.0
>
> instead of
>
>     http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/v1.0
>
> and this can cause validation problems.
>
> This fact was mentioned as part of a larger issue in July by Markus
> (http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/grid/2014-July/002633.html),
> but not fixed back then.
>
> This is clearly a document curation error, since the copy at
> the canonical URL does not match the text in Appendix A.3 of the
> VOSI 1.0 Recommendation
> (http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOSI/20110531/REC-VOSI-1.0-20110531.html).
> The version in that appendix is OK.
>
> Unless anybody comes up with a reason why not in the next few days,
> I plan to ask the IVOA Document Coordinator to replace the existing
> copy on the IVOA web site with a version cut'n'pasted from the
> VOSI appendix, as per the attachment to this message.
>
> Mark
>
> --
> 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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