[DDI-users] DDI schema 2.1 (Winona Salesky)
Mark R. Diggory
mdiggory at latte.harvard.edu
Mon Jan 16 18:05:58 EST 2006
Matt I've made changes that cover most of the issues we've discussed in
the last couple weeks. However, we should still all review the changes
before updating the site. Tomorrow morning, after the Sourceforge
ViewCVS site has updated, See the following files for all the changes
I've made.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ddi-alliance/ddi/w3c/Version2-1.xsd?rev=1.5&view=log
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ddi-alliance/ddi/w3c/Version2-0.xsd?rev=1.9&view=log
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ddi-alliance/ddi/dtd/Version2-1.dtd?rev=1.4&view=log
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ddi-alliance/ddi/dtd/Version2-0.dtd?rev=1.8&view=log
-Mark
Matthew Richardson wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Let me know when the change is made, and I'll re-deploy the files to the DDI
>site.
>
>
>On 1/16/06 2:12 PM, "Mark R. Diggory" <mdiggory at latte.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>>I would like to add that for some of us w3c schema is a necessity.
>>Having a correct schema version of the DDI is paramount. So any obvious
>>error will be will be handled expeditiously. I will add this on to the
>>other formatting tag corrections we will be resolving this week.
>>
>>I do clearly see the problem, in the DTD:
>>
>>
>>
>>><!ELEMENT valrng ((range | item)+, key?, notes*) >
>>><!ATTLIST valrng
>>> %a.global;
>>>
>>>
>>was translated in creating the schema to the following, clearly an error:
>>
>>
>>
>>><xs:complexType name="valrngType">
>>> <xs:sequence>
>>> <xs:element name="range" type="rangeType"
>>>maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>>> <xs:element name="item" type="itemType"
>>>maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>>> <xs:element name="key" type="keyType" minOccurs="0"/>
>>> <xs:element name="notes" type="notesType" minOccurs="0"
>>>maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>>> </xs:sequence>
>>> <xs:attributeGroup ref="GLOBALS"/>
>>> </xs:complexType>
>>>
>>>
>>... more logically, it should look like this:
>>
>>
>>
>>> <xs:complexType name="valrngType">
>>> <xs:sequence>
>>> <xs:choice minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>>> <xs:element name="item" type="itemType" minOccurs="0"
>>>maxOccurs="1"/>
>>> <xs:element name="range" type="rangeType"
>>>minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
>>> </xs:choice>
>>> <xs:element name="key" type="keyType" minOccurs="0"/>
>>> <xs:element name="notes" type="notesType" minOccurs="0"
>>>maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>>> </xs:sequence>
>>> <xs:attributeGroup ref="GLOBALS"/>
>>> </xs:complexType>
>>>
>>>
>>I see this error as well for invalrng as well, I can make these
>>modifications in the schema maintained on our sourceforge site.
>>
>>-Mark Diggory
>>Harvard MIT Data Center
>>
>>Sanda Ionescu wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi, Winona.
>>>To cut a long story short, the DDI schema(s) on our site, irrespective
>>>of version, are known to contain errors. We have fixed some as we found
>>>them, but there may be others that we are not aware of.
>>>Therefore it is best to continue to use the DTDs (which are correct) for
>>>document creation and validation.
>>>Good luck, and let me know if you have questions.
>>>Sanda.
>>>
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>>>Message: 1
>>>Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:15:45 -0500
>>>From: "Winona Salesky" <wmeltzer at Princeton.EDU>
>>>Subject: [DDI-users] DDI schema 2.1
>>>To: <ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu>
>>>Message-ID: <200601131514.k0DFEGWg025727 at smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU>
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Is anybody using the DDI schema 2.1? We are moving our files over from
>>>DTD
>>>to schema and I have run into a very odd validation error. In our
>>>variable
>>>description we frequently use <valrng>, according to the example in the
>>>tag
>>>library we are using this correctly:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>><valrng><range min="1" max="3" /></valrng>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>However, the above example doesn't validate, because <range> and <item>
>>>are
>>>both mandatory tags in <valrng>. In order to make the above validate I
>>>would
>>>need to include an <item> tag:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>><valrng><range min="1" max="3" /><item VALUE="1"/></valrng>
>>>
>>>This second example validates just fine, but seems redundant, what is
>>>the
>>>point of having a range if you need to specify the individual values. Is
>>>this a mistake in the schema? Am I misusing these tags?
>>>
>>>Any help is appreciated.
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>-Winona Salesky
>>>Applications Delivery Specialist
>>>wmeltzer at princeton.edu
>>>CPANDA [www.cpanda.org]
>>>Princeton University Library
>>>
>>>
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