[Psidev-ms-dev] Request for technical change to schema definition

[Philip J. <pj...@eb...>]

Hi,

Just a minor request for the mzML schema - this does not involve any
change to the XML format, just the way the schema is constructed.

It would be useful if the schema definition was consistent in the way it
defines <complexType/> elements, with regard to giving them all explicit
names and referencing them from wherever they are used - there are a
handful of instances in the schema that contain 'anonymous' complexType
definitions within an element definition.  We have been working with the
mzML schema using JAXB (a Java library for converting XML files to a Java
object model).  The 'anonymous' complexType definitions play havoc with
JAXB - however the problem is very easily fixed without making the schema
any more complex than it already is.  We suspect this may also be useful
for libraries other than JAXB.

We have already made these changes locally to schema version 0.99.1.  All
of the example mzML files at psidev.info validate against the modified
version.

You can find our version of the schema here:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~pjones/mzML0.99.1_mod.xsd


Best regards,

Phil Jones & Richard Cote.

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Phil Jones
Software Engineer
PRIDE Project Team
PANDA Group, EMBL-EBI
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD
UK.

Work phone: +44 1223 492610
Skype: philip-jones