FW: Is this a bug in EML schema or a bug in EML validator?

[Dan Higgins]

Hi Zhiqiang,

    It does look like there may be a bug in the validator. The fellow 
who wrote it is on vacation, but we will take a look at it and get back 
to you.

Dan Higgins
NCEAS Developer

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Zhiqiang Yang wrote:

> Sorry if this is a duplicate. When I send my email last time, my email 
> program crashed.
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> Hi, EML Gurus,
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> I am trying to use eml validation tools for testing of eml document.
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> Suppose I have a eml document as the one attached at the end of this 
> email. The parse does not like the eml document, because in the config 
> file, it requires that to reuse attribute element, it has to be 
> defined in <attributeReference>, however, in eml schema, there is no 
> such element defined. All references in eml are defined using 
> <references> element. Does this means that <attributeReferene> will be 
> added later? Or the config.xml for eml validation should be changed? 
> Similarly situation occurs for <entityReference> etc.
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> Am I interpret the schema correctly or am I misunderstand something?
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> Thank you for your help.
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> yang
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> Attched Test EML Document
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> <?xml version="1.0"?>
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> <eml:eml
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>     packageId="eml.1.1" system="knb"
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>     xmlns:eml="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0"
>
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>
>     xmlns:ds="eml://ecoinformatics.org/dataset-2.0.0"
>
>     xmlns:stmml="http://www.xml-cml.org/schema/stmml"
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>     xsi:schemaLocation="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0 eml.xsd">
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> <dataset>
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>   <title>Data</title>
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>   <creator id="c.le">
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>     <individualName>
>
>       <salutation>Mr.</salutation>
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>       <givenName>C</givenName>
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>       <surName>Le</surName>
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>     </individualName>
>
>     <address>
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>       <deliveryPoint>Department</deliveryPoint>
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>       <deliveryPoint>100 Bldg</deliveryPoint>
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>       <deliveryPoint>1987 Circle</deliveryPoint>
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>       <city>SP</city>
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>       <administrativeArea>N</administrativeArea>
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>       <postalCode>6097</postalCode>
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>       <country>USA</country>
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>     </address>
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>     <phone>123-6731</phone>
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>     <electronicMailAddress>le at edu</electronicMailAddress>
>
>   </creator>
>
>   <contact>
>
>     <references>c.le</references>
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>   </contact>
>
>   <dataTable>
>
>     <entityName>txt</entityName>
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>     <entityDescription>patterns</entityDescription>
>
>     <attributeList>
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>       <attribute id="att.1">
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>         <attributeName>fld</attributeName>
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>         <attributeLabel>Field</attributeLabel>
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>         <attributeDefinition>Field where the data was collected
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>         </attributeDefinition>
>
>         <storageType>string</storageType>
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>         <measurementScale>
>
>           <nominal>
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>             <nonNumericDomain id="nd.1">
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>               <textDomain>
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>                 <definition>Valid names of fields</definition>
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>               </textDomain>
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>             </nonNumericDomain>
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>           </nominal>
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>         </measurementScale>
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>       </attribute>
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>     </attributeList>
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>   </dataTable>
>
>   <dataTable>
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>     <entityName>CDR</entityName>
>
>     <entityDescription>patterns amoung communities at 
> CDR</entityDescription>
>
>     <attributeList>
>
>       <attribute id="att.2">
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>         <attributeName>f</attributeName>
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>         <attributeLabel>F</attributeLabel>
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>         <attributeDefinition>F</attributeDefinition>
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>         <storageType>string</storageType>
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>         <measurementScale>
>
>           <nominal>
>
>             <nonNumericDomain id="nd.2">
>
>               <textDomain>
>
>                 <definition>Valid names of fields</definition>
>
>               </textDomain>
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>             </nonNumericDomain>
>
>           </nominal>
>
>         </measurementScale>
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>       </attribute>
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>       <attribute><references>att.1</references></attribute>
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>     </attributeList>
>
>   </dataTable>
>
> </dataset>
>
> </eml:eml>
>
>  
>


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