[eml-dev] [Fwd: RE: Report from Metacat Harvester: Thu Nov 10 10:27:27 MST 2005]

[Peter McCartney]

I dont remember any reason for it. 
On Friday 11 November 2005 06:53 am, Wade Sheldon wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a question: what was the rationale for setting the xml-schema
> datatype for ../attribute/measurementScale/ratio/numericDomain/bounds in
> EML as xs:decimal instead of xs:float? I recently encountered validation
> problems when creating metadata for data tables from radioisotope studies
> that included very large maximum bounds for some attributes (in the
> 10^6-10^7 range), and it turned out that display of these bounds in
> scientific notation was the problem.
>
> I altered my code to force bounds to be displayed in decimal notation as a
> work-around, but this schema rule seems unnecessarily strict to me.
> Besides, ruling out scientific notation for numeric fields can also require
> metadata creators to include unrealistic numbers of significant digits.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wade Sheldon
>
>
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