[eml-dev] White sapce string at "para" element

[Jing Tao]

Hi, Margaret:

Currently eml201to210.xsl, the transformation style sheet, will give user 
an warning if it detects whitespace value of elements except 
recordDelimiter, physicalLineDelimiter and fieldDelimiter.

Now we find out the "para" is an exception too. I would like to add 
"parar" into the exception list since it allows whitespace vlaue.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Jing

Jing Tao
National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
735 State St. Suite 204
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Jing Tao wrote:

> Hi, Margaret:
>
> I got it. Thanks!
>
> Jing
>
>
> Jing Tao
> National Center for Ecological
> Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> 735 State St. Suite 204
> Santa Barbara, CA 93101
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Margaret O'Brien wrote:
>
>> Hi Jing -
>> The para element is in the text.xsd, which is a small subset of the docBook 
>> DTD. DocBook allows empty para elements, and so empty <para> elements are 
>> allowed in EML, too.
>> 
>> Note: it was the EML elements with simple content that were retyped to 
>> non-empty strings (with a few exceptions).
>> 
>> Margaret
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jing Tao wrote:
>>> Hi, Margaret:
>>> 
>>> Here is a very simple eml document created by morpho:
>>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>> <eml:eml packageId="tao.12767.1" system="knb" 
>>> xmlns:eml="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.0" 
>>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
>>> xsi:schemaLocation="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.0 eml.xsd"> <access 
>>> authSystem="knb" order="denyFirst"> <allow><principal>public</principal>
>>> <permission>read</permission>
>>> </allow>
>>> </access>
>>>  <dataset> <title>title</title>
>>>  <creator id="1240161910422"> <organizationName>UCSB</organizationName>
>>> </creator>
>>>  <abstract><para> </para>
>>> </abstract>
>>> <contact id="1240161923566"><individualName><surName>UCSB</surName>
>>> </individualName>
>>> </contact>
>>> </dataset>
>>>  </eml:eml>
>>> 
>>> You may notice that there is white sapce value in abstract/para element. 
>>> This issue relates to the morpho bug 2223 - 
>>> http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2223
>>> 
>>> This bug was claimed to be fixed. But somehow it came back again and I 
>>> reopenned the bug.
>>> 
>>> I thought Metacat would reject this document. However, metacat at dev 
>>> accepted it. I also tried the online emlparser at dev 
>>> http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/emlparser/, which cotains eml-2.1.0 release 
>>> code. The parser said the above document is a valid eml document.
>>> 
>>> I am wondering why eml-2.1.0 schema allows a white space in para element. 
>>> Would you mind taking a look?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Jing
>>> 
>>> Jing Tao
>>> National Center for Ecological
>>> Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
>>> 735 State St. Suite 204
>>> Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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>> 
>> -- 
>> ========================
>> Margaret O'Brien
>> Santa Barbara Coastal-LTER Data Management
>> Marine Science Institute
>> University of California
>> Santa Barbara, CA  93106-6150
>> 
>> 805-893-2071
>> mob at icess.ucsb.edu
>> http://sbc.lternet.edu
>> ======================== 
>> 
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