[seek-taxon] TCS help: Placeholder question

[Robert K. Peet]

Robert,

What do you recommend that we use for specimen and and for reference?  I 
am inclined to think that we should default to abcd for specimens, and to 
EML for references.

Bob



On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Robert Gales wrote:

> Hi Xianhua,
>
> The Placeholder class is xsd:any/xsd:anyAttribute with ##any namespace.  This 
> means that you can plug in elements from any namespace or even no namespace.
>
> For example with SpecimenItem:
>
> <SpecimenItem identifier="cn55">
>  <DataSets xmlns="http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06">
>    ...
>     <Unit>
>       <UnitId>cn55</abcd:UnitID>
>       ...
>     </Unit>
>  </DataSets>
> </SpecimenItem>
>
> or...
>
> <SpecimenItem identifier="cn55">
>  <CatalogNumber>55</CatalogNumber>
>  <Locality>5 mi west of Lawrence</Locality>
>  <State>Kansas</State>
>  <County>Douglas</County>
>  <Country>United States</Country>
> </SpecimenItem>
>
> - Rob
>
> Robert Liu wrote:
>> 
>> Jessie & Robert:
>>  I am trying to convert data into TCS 1.01 and am not sure how to handle 
>> the Class Placeholder. Several elements in TCS are defined as class 
>> Placeholder, such as CharacterCircumscription, Specimen-Collection. I 
>> wonder how to extend Placeholder to incorperate detail information for each 
>> specific element. Thanks.
>>  Xianhua
>> 
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