Initial Questions regarding eml documentation - reading the diagrams

[Scott Chapal]

Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> writes:

> Hi Scott and Myla,
> 
> I've tried to reply to your questions about EML validation in the
> email below. Hope it is useful to you,

Myla Jordan <mjordan at spock.jonesctr.org> responds:

> Yes everything is cleared up...all the light bulbs went on.  
...

> Now that this is verified it all make sense to me...at least for
> now.  I now also understand why references is always surrounded by
> an unbroken line.  For example: The dataset element requires either
> the reference element OR atleast one instance of all the required
> elements (title, creator, contact) - but not both.  Ding ding
> ding...we have a winner.

So, the only outstanding question from this thread remains:

> > eml-party: Example: <phone phonetype="voice">805-555-2500</phone>
> 
> > creates an invalid element - should be <phone>805-555-2500</phone>
> 
> Actually, the schema should allow an optional attribute of
> "phonetype", so I think the example is correct.  I'll have to look
> into this in more detail to figure out what is wrong and why it won't
> validate for you.

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