[eml-dev] [Bug 4114] New: - Update stylesheets to improve entityCodeList display

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4114

           Summary: Update stylesheets to improve entityCodeList display
           Product: EML
           Version: 2.0.1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: eml - general bugs
        AssignedTo: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu
        ReportedBy: regetz at nceas.ucsb.edu
         QAContact: eml-dev at ecoinformatics.org


The measurement domain information displayed by Metacat skins and Morpho is
cryptic for enumeratedDomains that use entityCodeList. It currently shows
internal entity id numbers, which have no meaning to end users.

For reference, here is the relevant part of the EML spec:
http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/eml-2.1.0/eml-attribute.html#enumeratedDomain

Example:
1. Browse to http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat/judithk.306/knb
2. Click on View Metadata for the data table "elephantbuffalo2001.txt"
3. In the Attribute(s) Info table, click on the Domain Info link for the
"Specie code" attribute

The displayed numbers are internal entity ids for the "MEGAHERBIVORE CENSUS
LUT.txt" data table, its 'Code' attribute, and its 'Species' attribute,
respectively.

The simplest enhancement is probably to extract and display the relevant table
name and code/definition attribute names, instead of the ids. A more extensive
modification would be to extract and display the actual codes/definitions
directly, but that might not be worth the additional effort.