Technical question about v1.1 VOEvent schema

Matthew Graham mjg at cacr.caltech.edu
Wed Feb 3 16:46:10 PST 2010


Hi,

If you believe the schema to be normative then an update has to be  
slightly more formal but if the IVOA document is normative then  
updating the schema should be fine.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:

> Hi Jean-Paul,
>
> I'm copying Bob Denny who has expressed similar issues with the v1.1  
> schema.  We certainly intend to fix this for v2.0.  I don't believe  
> anyone would object if we worked around the issue for v1.1 by  
> installing an updated schema in some public location.  Comments from  
> the WG?
>
> Rob
> ---
>
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Jean-Paul Le Fèvre wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm having difficulties with the VOEvent-v1.1.xsd schema :
>>
>> I've compiled the file using jaxb, the Sun schema compiler but I  
>> couldn't
>> parse a VOEvent file using my code. More specifically the <What>  
>> section
>> caused my program to fail.
>>
>> I figured out that the reason had to do with the fact that the  
>> element <Param>
>> has no type specified in the <What> section of the schema . It is  
>> the same
>> for <Group> and <Reference>.
>>
>> I've been able to fix my code by modifying the schema, adding  
>> type="Param" to
>> <xs:element name="Param"/> : <xs:element name="Param" type="Param" />
>> everywhere and the same for <Group> and <Reference>.
>>
>> Am I right ? Do I miss something ?
>>
>> -- 
>> ___________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Jean-Paul Le Fèvre  * Mail : Jean-Paul.LeFevre at cea.fr
>>
>



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