eml-spatialReference Question

[Peter McCartney]

Yes. here is the definition thats in the eml-spatialReference.xsd


 <xs:element name="landsat" type="xs:string">
    <xs:annotation>
      <xs:appinfo>
        <doc:tooltip>Landsat Number</doc:tooltip>
        <doc:summary>number of the Landsat satellite.</doc:summary>
        <doc:description>This data element exists solely to provide a
parameter
        needed to define the space oblique mercator projection. It is not
used
        to identify data originating from a remote sensing
        vehicle.)</doc:description>
        <doc:lineage>FGDC-STD-001-1998.</doc:lineage>
      </xs:appinfo>
    </xs:annotation>
  </xs:element>

Its obvious that much of the apparent "lack" of documentation in the spatial
modules is resulting from two things:

	1) I pasted the rather terse fgdc and ISO descriptions into the
"summary" element and left the description field blank in most cases. the
xsl that displace the spec on the web appears to ignore the summary field
and display only the description and example fields. The xsl should display
the summary as well.

	2) spatial reference makes use of ref= for many of the elements. I
only put the annotations in the original source. If you are trying to add
annotation sections to each element that points to a ref, or implements a
complext type, I think that leads to a lot of work and errors down the road
if these get edited. Far better to write the XSL to draw the info from those
sources. 

Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
Center for Environmental Studies
Arizona State University
480-965-6791 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Ramsey [mailto:kramsey at jornada.nmsu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:43 AM
> To: peter.mccartney at asu.edu
> Subject: eml-spatialReference Question
> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> In doing the documentation for spatialReference I found an 
> element name
> that doesn't match the FGDC attribute name.
> 
> Does the 'landsat' element refer to the FGDC 'Landsat Number' 
> attribute?
> Thanks.
> 
> Ken
> 
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