Updated VOSI schema files

Brian Major major.brian at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 22:43:49 CET 2018


This all looks right to me.  Thanks for coordinating, Markus.  And thanks
risking your sanity Mark with the cross checks.

Brian

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:24 AM, Markus Demleitner <
msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> Hi GWS, hi Guilia,
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:52:48AM +0000, Mark Taylor wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> > > But that's for another day -- the particular riddle you encountered
> > > has an easy solution. Essentially, we didn't have a Erratum process
> > > in place when you noted the schema in VOSI 1.0 in the document is
> > > wrong and contradicts the spec -- see
> > > http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/grid/2014-October/002677.html.  As a
> > > consequence, the schema in the repo was updated with what's there now
> > > and what's correct for VOSI 1.0, while the document text remained
> > > unmodified and still contradicts itself.
> >
> > Are you sure?  It looks to me like that's exactly what hasn't happened;
> > the schema at http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd
> > (still) does not match the text from VOSI 1.0 Appendix A.3, it still
> > targets the VOSICapabilities namespace.  Your GWS list email cited
> > above says:
> >
> > Markus wrote to grid at ivoa.net on 29 Oct 2014:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I don't know whether you did make that request to ivoadoc, but it
> > doesn't look like any such change was actually performed.
>
> Oh, you're right again, and this time I don't even have a Friday as a
> lame excuse for my not even bothering to check.
>
> So, here's what should be done:
>
> (1) overwrite
>
> http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd
>
> with what's actually in Appendix A.3 of
> http://ivoa.net/documents/VOSI/20110531/REC-VOSI-1.0-20110531.html
>
> (2) put the content of
>
> https://volute.g-vo.org/svn/trunk/projects/grid/VOSI/VOSITables-v1.1.xsd
>
> to
>
> http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.1.xsd
>
> (3) Make whatever magic makes
>
> http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/v1.0
>
> (yes, 1.0 here) resolve to
> http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.0.xsd
> right now resolve to
> http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOSITables/VOSITables-v1.1.xsd
> in the future.
>
>
> Since this procedure is going to happen a bit more often in the
> future (updates to RegistryInterfaces, VOResource and more later
> coming up; we should also make sure that the SimpleDALRegExt schema
> files -- for which this should already have happened -- are correctly
> updated), I'd say the procedure would be a good addition to the web
> assets note (http://ivoa.net/documents/notes/webassets/index.html).
>
> Sorry for the two confused first attempts, and thanks to Mark for
> paying attention,
>
>             Markus
>
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