[eml-dev] [Bug 3232] - EML parser limitations

Thu Apr 17 11:41:49 PDT 2008

http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3232

jones at nceas.ucsb.edu changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|normal                      |enhancement
           Priority|P2                          |P1
   Target Milestone|Unspecified                 |EML2.1.0

------- Comment #1 from jones at nceas.ucsb.edu  2008-04-17 11:41 -------
If the EML Parser can be made to check additional schema validity constraints,
we should go ahead and fix this for the 2.1.0 release.  Any lack of checking on
the schema validity in previous releases was an error.  

The EML Parser is the definitive check on EML validity, and is used in many
applications, such as Metacat and Morpho.  One difficult side effect of
upgrading the parser would be that Metacat would no longer accept the documents
that it accepts today (i.e., 2.0.1 docs) if the schemas don't validate, and so
this could trigger a large set of problems for content providers from various
sites by forcing an upgrade to 2.1.0.