StandardRegExt: comments on a few changes requested
Ray Plante
rplante at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Feb 13 09:31:05 PST 2012
Hi registry folks,
Today I uploaded a revision of the StandardRegExt PR document to the
StandardRegExt twiki page
(http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/StandardsRegExt).
The changes were in response to the last TCG review comments. Two of
the changes are worth noting to the WG; if you have any concerns about
these changes, please share them.
1. Matthew Graham (VOEvent WG) suggested that adding two more
allowed values to the "status" attribute of the
<endorsedVersion> element: "iwd" and "note". This attribute
indicates that status of the version of the standard in the IVOA
process, and the previously allowed versions were "rec", "pr",
and "wd". I agreed and added these values; however, I note that
the schema must be updated. This is should not be disruptive as
I do not believe the schema has been put into use anywhere, yet.
2. Matthew also asked for an addition example, which I added as an
appendix. This triggered a need to add a paragraph to section
3.1.2 (that is, I converted a non-normative note box to a
normative paragraph). This explains a recommendation on how to
describe DAL services specifically to label optional but
ignorable input parameters with 'use="ignore"'; see the final
paragraph for rationale and details.
One of the things I discovered when writing this was an error in
the VODataService document where the use attribute is defined.
The schema defines 3 possible values: "required", "optional",
and "ignore"; however, the explanatory text in the document only
includes "required" and "optional". I bet we can fix this
problem pretty easily; nevertheless, I have not let this error
stop me from making reference to the "ignore" value in
StandardRegExt.
Your thoughts are welcome. I will ask to have this new version to the
repository within the next day; however, I will delay request for
final consideration of the revision by the Exec until I've heard from
the RWG chair.
cheers,
Ray
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