SODA10Err3 < IVOA

---+ !Server-side Operations for Data Access version 1.0 Proposed Erratum 3: Wrong VOTable syntax in BAND example

Author: François Bonnarel

Date last changed: 2023-01-23

Date accepted:

---++ Rationale

In section 4.2, the VOTable excerpt given for the BAND PARAM is somewhat ambiguous for the MIN and MAX elements syntax. The values of these elements are single doubles while the  BAND arraysize  attribute is 2. It has to be clarified that the MIN single value applies to  the two elements in the BAND array as well as the MAX value. This is consistent with a generic rule for MIN/MAX values for  array-valued PARAMs and FIELDS as  described in the VOTable specification starting for version 1.5. In addition the closing tag of the VALUES element is wrongly written<br />&lt;verbatim&gt;&lt;/VALUE&gt;&lt;/verbatim&gt;

instead of<br />&lt;verbatim&gt;&lt;/VALUES&gt;&lt;/verbatim&gt;

This ambiguity orignally described on github in SODA issue #2 (https://github.com/ivoa-std/SODA/issues/2)

---++ Erratum Content

This Erratum proposes following changes.

---++++ Fix VOTable syntax

In [[http://ivoa.net/documents/SODA/20170517/REC-SODA-1.0.html#tth_sEc4.2][§4.2 "*SODA Service Descriptor from DataLink*"]] of !SODA-1.0, update the BAND  text and example  in

from

<verbatim>
For float-valued intervals (e.g., the standard BAND and TIME parameters), VALUES/MIN and VALUES/MAX should be used to communicate the range
of values for which clients can expect to receive data. Example:
<PARAM name="BAND" unit="m" ucd="em.wl;stat.interval"
    datatype="double" arraysize="2"      
    xtype="interval" value="">     
    <DESCRIPTION>The wavelength intervals to be extracted</DESCRIPTION>
    <VALUES>                                                           
      <MIN value="3e-7"/>
      <MAX value="8e-7"/>
    </VALUE>             
  </PARAM>  </verbatim>



<verbatim> <MIN value="3e-7"/></verbatim>

to

<verbatim> <MIN value="3e-7 5.5e-7"/></verbatim>

from

<verbatim><MAX value="8e-7"/></verbatim>

to

<verbatim><MAX value="2e-7 8e-7"/></verbatim>

from

<verbatim></VALUE></verbatim>

to

<verbatim></VALUES></verbatim>

---++ Impact Assessment

Fixing the VOTable syntax in an example will make no harm to any service and will avoid implementers writing code delivering incorrect VOTables.
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Topic revision: r4 - 2023-03-17 - FrancoisBonnarel