Questions about inserting data into EML xml documents

[Christopher Jones]

Linda,

powell at fiu.edu wrote:
 > Can you actually embed data values into an EML (xml) document?

Yes, as Peter said, the intention of the <inline> method of distribution was 
just that - paste the data right into the EML document.  However, in EML 2.0.0, 
there is a bug with the inline element. See the bug at:

http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008

A number of bugfixes have been addressed in the EML 2.0.1 release, which will be 
released shortly. (Matt recently put it up for a vote.)  If you plan to embed 
the data, I would suggest using the EML 2.0.1 version of the schemas.  They are 
backwards compatible with the EML 2.0.0 version.

 > Does the pasted data need to retain the format described earlier in the
 > physical module(e.g. comma delimited)?
Definitely.  Without accurate metadata, the data package would not be parseable 
by a machine.
_________________________________________________________________
christopher jones     cjones at lifesci.ucsb.edu      (805) 680-5946
marine science institute  university of california, santa barbara
_________________________________________________________________