Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] mzML_idx's IndexType::name attribute

[Matthew C. <mat...@va...>]

What makes you say that? Can the validator even validate that attributes 
have certain string values? And as we agreed in Turku, mapping file 
changes constitute a version bump for mzML. We just never decided how to 
handle the index wrapper schema.

-Matt


Angel Pizarro wrote:
> sounds like an issue for the validator. -a
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Matthew Chambers 
> <mat...@va... 
> <mailto:mat...@va...>> wrote:
>
>     Hello mzML fans,
>
>     Apparently, Mass++ is writing indexed mzML files (yay!), but it
>     uses an
>     unexpected "chroms" name to identify the chromatogram index
>     (boo!). The
>     mzML_idx XSD does not specify what are the possible values for that
>     attribute. Obviously, it's impossible to write a reader that uses
>     indexes if the indexes have been written with arbitrary names. It's of
>     course possible to ignore the index in these cases, but we should nip
>     this issue in the bud. We can release 1.1.1 to add the restriction.
>     MzML.xsd wouldn't even change, just mzML_idx.xsd. Which leads to the
>     question of whether we should bump mzML's version or not if only
>     the idx
>     wrapper changes...
>
>     -Matt
>
>