Dear Murray,
The duplicate you mention is a case where the original Standard Name was unfit for purpose due to the direction of the flux being implicit (assumed downwards) rather than explicit. We tackled this in our serving by using narrowMatch as the mapping predicate to both possibilities, with the implicit assumption reported by through the replacedBy mechanism. I appreciate that this isn't totally watertight if the semantic handler ignores the mappings and fails to report the inconsistency.
Cheers, Roy.
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From: CF-metadata <cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu> on behalf of Murray Altheim <Murray.Altheim at metservice.com>
Sent: 21 November 2017 02:08
To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Invalid alias IDs in CF Standard Name Table v47
My apologies, I spoke too soon. Upon realising that XML parsers always exit on validation
errors I should have waited until I'd fixed all of the errors. There were more to be found.
Upon making the aforementioned whitespace fixes I noted that the aliases were all
essentially meaningless, i.e., aliases to the same ID. These included the following IDs:
<alias id="mole_fraction_of_chlorine monoxide_in_air">
<alias id="mole_fraction_of_chlorine dioxide_in_air">
<alias id="mole_fraction_of_dichlorine_peroxide_in_air">
<alias id="mole_fraction_of_hypochlorous_acid_in_air">
<alias id="rate_of_ hydroxyl_radical_destruction_due_to_reaction_with_nmvoc">
<alias id="mole_fraction_of_hypochlorous_acid_in_air">
Following these changes I rigged up the XSD and tried validating the document. This
pointed out a duplicate of the alias:
<alias id="surface_carbon_dioxide_mole_flux">
<entry_id>surface_upward_mole_flux_of_carbon_dioxide</entry_id>
</alias>
<alias id="surface_carbon_dioxide_mole_flux">
<entry_id>surface_downward_mole_flux_of_carbon_dioxide</entry_id>
</alias>
which unless I'm mistaken is an attempt to alias an entry to two other different entries. This
would suggest that aliases are many-to-many. Is this intended? It seems odd, as then there
is no single resolution to an alias. [In my local file I've commented out the second element.]
What the above does suggest is that updates to the CF Standard Name Table XML document
are being posted without going through a validation process. Since I assume this document is
to be used in production environments (or at least it's our intention) I'm wondering who I
might discuss this issue with. And yes, I can offer assistance and/or forward a notated copy
of my fixed XML document if requested.
Cheers,
Murray
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