[Psidev-ms-dev] multiple mass analyzers, documentation

[Wilfred H T. <Ta...@ap...>]

> > * There is a mistake somewhere in the rules regarding the 
> > specification of mass analyzer. There are numerous instrument types 
> > that have multiple mass analyzers, but the validator rejects any 
> > instrument that contains more than one mass analyzer.  Currently, only 

> > one <analyzer> subelement is allowed under <componentList>, and the 
> > <analyzer> element is only allowed to have one child mass analyzer 
> > type CV term.

> You can indeed have several analyzer elements in your componentList, 
see:
> 
http://trac.thep.lu.se/trac/fp6-prodac/browser/trunk/mzML/plgs_example.mzML
> at line 29-44.

Yes, I see from the example how that is supposed to work.  So it appears 
that the documentation (http://www.sbeams.org/tmp/mzML1.0.0.html#analyzer) 
is wrong?

Element <componentList>
Definition:
List with the different components used in the mass spectrometer. At least 
one source, one mass analyzer and one detector need to be specified. 
Attributes:


Attribute Name
Data Type
Use
Definition
count
xs:nonNegativeInteger
required
The number of components in this list.

Subelements:


Subelement Name
minOccurs
maxOccurs
Definition
source
1
1
A source component.
analyzer
1
1
A mass analyzer (or mass filter) component.
detector
1
1
A detector component.