[DAS2] namespace description

[Ed Erwin]

I agree.  Allowing the mixing of free-text with XML-elements makes 
parsing difficult.

Your suggestion is good.  But you can also consider this, which might be 
better if the description ever needs to be long:

<NAMESPACE id="volvox/1/type">
   <DESCRIPTION>Feature types</DESCRIPTION>
   <FORMAT id="das2xml" type="text/x-das-featuretype+xml" />
   <FORMAT id="compact" type="text/x-das-featuretype+compact" />
</NAMESPACE>


Andrew Dalke wrote:
> The spec has an example which looks like
> 
> 
>        <NAMESPACE id="volvox/1/type">Feature types
>           <FORMAT id="das2xml" type="text/x-das-featuretype+xml" />
>           <FORMAT id="compact" type="text/x-das-featuretype+compact" />
>        </NAMESPACE>
> 
> The description in the NAMESPACE is somewhat tricky to handle.
> I was able to get a schema description for it as mixed text, but it
> allows the following
> 
>        <NAMESPACE id="volvox/1/type">
>           <FORMAT id="das2xml" type="text/x-das-featuretype+xml" />
> Feature
>           <FORMAT id="compact" type="text/x-das-featuretype+compact" />
>   types
>        </NAMESPACE>
> 
> I would rather see something like
> 
>        <NAMESPACE id="volvox/1/type" description="Feature types">
>           <FORMAT id="das2xml" type="text/x-das-featuretype+xml" />
>           <FORMAT id="compact" type="text/x-das-featuretype+compact" />
>        </NAMESPACE>
> 
> 
>                                         Andrew
>                                         dalke at dalkescientific.com
> 
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