FW: Report from Metacat Harvester: Wed Aug 25 11:00:36 MDT 2004

[Duane Costa]

Could anyone comment as to whether the EML error reported by Metacat below
is a genuine EML error versus a bug in Metacat or the EML validator program?
The issue is whether the id value for <dataset> must be unique from the id
value for <creator>.

Thanks,
Duane

-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Gries [mailto:corinna at asu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:48 PM
To: dcosta at lternet.edu
Subject: RE: Report from Metacat Harvester: Wed Aug 25 11:00:36 MDT 2004

Hi Duane,

I am trying to fix these problems with our eml files. Some are easy
because they are actual errors in our files, but there is one where I
wonder if the ID checking is right. I understood IDs should be unique
within the system, that is for example:

<dataset id="30" system="ces_dataset"> ... Is different from
<creator id="30" system="ces_party"> ....

However, your harvester complains that they are the same:

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* METACAT HARVESTER REPORT: Wed Aug 25 11:00:36 MDT 2004
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* A TOTAL OF 22 ERRORS WERE DETECTED.
* Please see the log entries below for additonal details.
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* harvestLogID:         5549
* harvestDate:          Wed Aug 25 11:00:36 MDT 2004
* status:               1
* message:              
* harvestOperationCode: InsertDocError
* description:          Error inserting EML document to Metacat
* detailLogID:          383
* errorMessage:         MetacatException: <?xml version="1.0"?>
<error>
Error running xpath expression:
//dateTimeDomain|//nonNumericDomain|//numericDomain|//access|//attribute
List|//constraint|//coverage|//temporalCoverage|//geographicCoverage|//t
axonomicCoverage|/dataset|/eml/dataset|//dataSource|//dataTable|//otherE
ntity|//citation|//address|//conferenceLocation|//party|//originator|//c
reator|//contact|//publisher|//editor|//recipient|//performer|//institut
ion|//metadataProvider|//associatedParty|//personnel|//physical|//connec
tionDefinition|//distribution|//researchProject|//project|//relatedProje
ct|//software|//spatialRaster|//spatialReference|//spatialVector|//store
dProcedure|//view|//protocol|//additionalMetadata : Error in xml
document.  This EML document is not valid because the id 30 occurs more
than once.  IDs must be unique. </error>

* scope:                ces_dataset
* identifier:           30
* revision:             1
* documentType:         eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0
* documentURL:
http://seinet.asu.edu/DataCatalog/getXanthoriaRecord.jsp?source=ces_data
set_mohave&id=30
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What do you think?

Corinna