metadata question

[Bruce Flynn]

Hi Ethan,

On May 18, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Ethan Davis wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
> One problem is that your catalog is not valid according to the  
> InvCatalog schema. The TDS is pretty lenient when reading catalogs  
> so I don't think any of this is causing the problem you are seeing.  
> But here are the details. Just a few changes fix it. At the catalog  
> level, service elements must come before dataset elements. The  
> datasetRoot element needs a location attribute instead of a  
> dirLocation attribute (either is allowed in datasetScan but not in  
> datasetRoot). Inside of datasets, access elements come after  
> metadata and dataSize elements. Also, metadata elements have to  
> come before dataset elements. I've attached a new version of your  
> catalog that fixes these problems.
>
> Can you try the attached catalog and check for well-formed XML in  
> the linked resource and see how well that works?

I tried the modifications you suggested and got disappointing  
results.  I've posted the errors produced again at http:// 
www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brucef.

Your suggestions bring up a couple of questions regarding the schema:
  1. Is it correct that the order in the schema is the _exact_ order  
they must appear in the XML doc (if they appear of course)?
  2. where is the definition for datasetRoot?  It doesn't appear to  
be in the schema.
  3. there are some other elements, addDatasetSize for example, that  
also don't seem to be in the schema.

> You could just stick some text and an HTML link into a  
> documentation element:
>
> <documentation>Other related datasets are available in this  
> datasets <a href="???">parent collection</a>.</documentation>

I see your point about the documentation.  A description with the  
additional xhtml anchor tag would probably work well, but I cannot  
seem to get that to work either.  The XML parser fails when it comes  
across the anchor.

Unfortunately, the server is running on a machine that is not  
available outside of SSEC.  If it would be helpful I can run a  
service on a machine that is available.

Thanks for your time,
Bruce

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