Params cannot carry descriptions in VOEvent 1.1

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Fri Mar 26 13:30:01 PDT 2010


> "A <Description> may be included within any element or sub-element  
> of a VOEvent to add human readable content."
>
> and
>
> "A <Reference> may be included in any element or sub-element of a  
> VOEvent packet to describe an association with external content via  
> a Uniform Resource Identifier [16]."
>
> So which part of the "normative" spec is not?

As in all prose, specific statements overrule the general.  It would  
not make it more clear to add "except for cases in which this is  
specifically excluded" to every sentence.

>       <xs:element name="Reference"   type="Reference" *** THIS BIT  
> IS MISSING IN THE SCHEMA *** />

Ok.  Bob, is this correct in your schema?  Is anybody creating typed  
references in any event?

Rob

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