catalog schema question: variable element

[Darren Hardy]

I have a question about the <variable> element in the inventory  
catalog schema. Suppose that I have the following information on a  
dataset variable (in DAS format):

Attributes {
     SST {
         String long_name "OI Cloud-free SST, blah blah blah";
         String standard_name "sea_surface_temperature";
         String units "degC";
     }
     Foobar {
         String long_name "My foobar variable"
         String units "m"
     }
}

As I read the catalog spec, I will lose the "human-readable"  
long_name attribute (ala CF-1.0):

   <variables>
     <variable name="SST" vocabulary_name="sea_surface_temperature"  
units="degC"/>
     <variable name="Foobar" vocabulary_name"Foobar" units="m" />
   </variables>

Am I missing something? Is there a way to retain that human-readable  
description of the variables?

Thanks,
-Darren
--
Darren Hardy
Ph.D. Student
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
University of California, Santa Barbara
dhardy at bren.ucsb.edu
www.bren.ucsb.edu/~dhardy

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