[kepler-dev] [Bug 5474] New: Make the eml actor on kepler handle multiple physical representations in an entity

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5474

           Summary: Make the eml actor on kepler handle multiple physical
                    representations in an entity
           Product: Kepler
           Version: 1.x dev
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: actors
        AssignedTo: david.v.welker at gmail.com
        ReportedBy: tao at nceas.ucsb.edu
         QAContact: kepler-dev at kepler-project.org
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


Wade Sheldon from GCE-LTER brought an question if the eml actor can handle
mutiple physical representations in an entity.

I took a look at code and found kepler can't handle this correctly. In
org.ecoinformatics.seek.datasource.eml.eml2.Eml200Parser class, we always use 

physical/dataFormat/textFormat/simpleDelimited/collapseDelimiters,
physical/distribution/online/url/@function and et al directly. And also we only
get the value from the node which index is 0.

This will handle entity with one physical representation correctly. But it will
failed when an entity has more than one physical representation.

For example, a dataTable has two physicals. The first one isn't textFormat and
has a downloadable url. The second one is textFormat and has a downloadable
url.

Kepler will download the first non-text data object and ignore the second text
data object. And the worst case is that kepler will mismatch the non-text data
object with the text format information from the second text data object.

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