Re: Old ucd names invalid with VOTable-1.1 schema

Well, the old UCD1 as they were originally defined did not accept a colon -- the colon was introduced by the SIAP (ans is used only in this application). But in order to be compatible with this application, the next schema will accept it.

Thank you,
Francois Ochsenbein

>
>Hello,
>
>I just discovered that the VOTable 1.1 schema provided at
>http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOTable/v1.1 does not allow for old style UCD
>like VOX:Image_Naxis. The problem is that the value is not facet-valid
>with respect to pattern '[A-Za-z0-9_.;\-]*' for type 'ucdType'. In
>clear, the ':' is missing in xsd document.
>
>More generally, I am surprised by the fact that most of the VOtable that
>can be found on various services are invalid. I think very few people
>are aware of this because most of the VOTable xml files don't specify
>the xsi:schemaLocation attribute and therefore cannot be validated
>automatically.
>
>As a reminder, to allow validation, a proper VOTABLE tag should be like
>that:
>
><VOTABLE xmlns="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOTable/v1.1"
>xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.1"
>xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOTable/v1.1
>http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOTable/v1.1">
>
>Best regards,
>
>Fabien Chereau

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