VOResource 1.1 namespace implementations breaking XSD validity

Molinaro, Marco marco.molinaro at inaf.it
Thu Feb 4 12:38:47 CET 2021


Hi,

fixed the IA2 TAP resource.
I'm not sure where that 1.1 came from, possibly simply my fault.

I'll check if other resources I managed are affected.

Cheers
    Marco

Il giorno mer 3 feb 2021 alle ore 17:09 Theresa Dower <dower at stsci.edu> ha
scritto:

>
> Aha, thank you Juan for catching this, and to Markus for the quick
> follow-up.
>
>
> I've fixed the stray MAST resource at our publishing registry end,
> hopefully as noted the VizieR update resolves the bulk of the issues.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Theresa
> ------------------------------
> *From:* registry-bounces at ivoa.net <registry-bounces at ivoa.net> on behalf
> of Markus Demleitner <msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 3, 2021 3:47:36 AM
> *To:* registry at ivoa.net
> *Subject:* Re: VOResource 1.1 namespace implementations breaking XSD
> validity
>
> External Email - Use Caution
>
> Juan,
>
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:24:56PM +0100, Juan Gonzalez wrote:
> > Performing a compliance check we have found out that that ~85% of
> > the VOResources currently published in the IVOA ecosystem are using
> > the following namespace:
> >
> > xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.1"
>
> Ouch.  Yeah, that's bugs (which fortunately didn't hit at least my
> RegTAP services because of fortunate conincidences).
>
> > So in our understanding,
> > xmlns:vg="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VORegistry/v1.0" would have to be
> > used to not break XSD validity.
>
> That is right.
>
> > This seems to be more on our responsibility as Registry providers
> > to check resources validity. Would there be general consensus to
> > request our publishing registries to perform this change?
>
> Sure: Dear registry operators, please make it a routine to run your
> registries through the validator at the beginning of each month.
>
> However, this particular problem doesn't concern too many operators.
> VizieR, where most of this comes from, will have a shiny new
> publishing registry real soon now (cf. the talk at the last interop),
> so that problem is going to go away by itself.
>
> Then I'm spotting ivo://xcatdb/3xmmdr7/tap, which is produced by you
> and should be easily fixed (use the opportunity to fix the
> broken xsi:schemaLocation on this one), and likewise
> ivo://ia2.inaf.it/tap/projects (though the schemaLocation is fine in
> this case).  It might be interesting to understand where the bad
> namespace URIs came from.
>
> Finally, there's ivo://mast.stsci/ssap/befs served by STScI.  I'm
> sure Theresa can quickly fix this one.
>
> So... phewy... it's essentially three records plus something that's
> already fixed with the rollout of the fix pending.
>
> Thanks for bringing this up,
>
>          Markus
>


-- 
Marco Molinaro
INAF - Istituto Nazionale di AstroFisica
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
email marco.molinaro at inaf.it
tel. +39 040 3199 152
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