Updated VOSI schema files

Mark Taylor m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk
Fri Jan 19 15:15:00 CET 2018


Markus,

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Markus Demleitner wrote:

> Dear Giuila, 
> 
> (cc: GWS so they can protest if they disagree)

maybe ...

> VOSI 1.1 (see https://volute.g-vo.org/svn/trunk/projects/grid/VOSI/)
> has updated the VOSITables-v1.0.xsd schema -- there is now a tables
> element, and you can tell you have the newer schema from the
> @version="1.1" attribute in the root element.
> 
> For one reason or another, the update hasn't made it to the XML
> schema page, http://ivoa.net/xml.  Could you update the file there?
> 
> The file name should not change -- I suppose we should archive the
> old VOSITables-v1.0.xsd as VOSITables-v1.0-20110531.xsd (the document
> date of VOSI 1.0) until we come up with a better scheme to accomodate
> the new schema versioning policies
> (http://ivoa.net/documents/Notes/XMLVers/index.html)

Are you sure about this?  From my reading of section 3 of the
XMLVers PEN you cite above, I'd say that

   http://ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd

should stay where it is, the new schema should be added as

   http://ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.1.xsd

and then
   
   http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/v1.0

should be changed to redirect to the new
http://ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.1.xsd
rather than the old
http://ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd


As a separate issue: the document currently residing at
http://ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd and hence
http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/v1.0 doesn't look right to me:
I'd expect to see the schema from A.3 of VOSI 1.0,
but it's different, e.g. the top-level xsd:schema/@targetNamespace is
http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSICapabilities/v1.0 rather than
http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/v1.0.
Am I going mad?  (quite possible - I feel my sanity draining
every time I think about XML namespaces).


Mark

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