<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I kind of forgot about this issue and I don't think it was ever discussed anywhere... #poke</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--<br></div><div>Patrick Dowler<br></div>Canadian Astronomy Data Centre<br></div>Victoria, BC, Canada<br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 10:45, Patrick Dowler <<a href="mailto:pdowler.cadc@gmail.com">pdowler.cadc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">An erratum for VOTable gives some advice on the use and meaning of arraysize="1" (link: <a href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOTable-1_3-Err-3" target="_blank">http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOTable-1_3-Err-3</a>). However, this conflicts with something in the VODataService-1.2 xsd (line 949-ish), where the arraysize atrtibute in DataType specifies default="1" and the documentation says that means scalar.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I consider default attribute values in xsd to be really sketchy because you cannot round-trip otherwise valid documents and behaviour changes if schema validation is enabled.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">When I read the xml output from a VOSI tables resource I get arraysize="1" even if the xml itself omitted the arraysize (which is what my TAP services are doing). The VOSI-tables and VOTable documents are no longer always consistent :-(</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Could that default="1" be removed via an erratum? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_3333095012065809529gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--<br></div><div>Patrick Dowler<br></div>Canadian Astronomy Data Centre<br></div>Victoria, BC, Canada<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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