[eml-dev] Doubts about EML

[Peter McCartney]

This looks right to me, assuming that the extra line feeds between records is an artifact of formatting for the email.

I would say kepler is the closest thing yet to a software package that is capable of handling embedded data inside an eml document, and it is still quite experimental. There are probably some local custom applications that are also doing it. As I said before, at ASU, weve been going with either a two part communcation where we request the eml then request the data based on the connection information, or a package where we put the data files and eml in one zip file and just put a relative path (ie just the filename) in the url field. 

Peter McCartney(peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
International Institute for Sustainability
Arizona State University
480-965-6791


> -----Original Message-----
> From: eml-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org 
> [mailto:eml-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of 
> Rafael Hideo Kawakami
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:04 AM
> To: eml-dev at ecoinformatics.org
> Subject: [eml-dev] Doubts about EML
> 
> 
> Thanks for the answers. I thought of something like this:
> 
>  
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> 
> <phys:physical>
> 
>  
> 
>   <objectName>data.txt</objectName>
> 
>  
> 
>   <dataFormat>
> 
>     <textFormat>
> 
>       <numHeaderLines>1</numHeaderLines>
> 
>       <recordDelimiter>#x0A</recordDelimiter>
> 
>       <attributeOrientation>column</attributeOrientation>
> 
>       <simpleDelimited>
> 
>           <fieldDelimiter>#x20</fieldDelimiter>
> 
>       </simpleDelimited>
> 
>     </textFormat>
> 
>   </dataFormat>
> 
>  
> 
>   <distribution>
> 
>     <inline>date  time  temperature
> 
> 26/02/2005 00:00 19.2  
> 
> 26/02/2005 00:30 19.4  
> 
> 26/02/2005 01:00 20.2  
> 
> <!-- there are thousands of entries..-->
> 
>     </inline>
> 
>   </distribution>
> 
> </phys:physical>
> 
>  
> 
> Or even put the data inside XML tags ( <date><time><value>).
> 
>  
> 
> Is it correct?
> 
>  
> 
> And the question that remains. is it possible for eml 
> compliant systems (like kepler) to use it? The whole idea of 
> using a standard is to, in the future, integrate this work 
> with others.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rafael Hideo Kawakami
> 
> São Paulo University
> 
> rafael.kawakami at poli.usp.br 
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