[DAS] GFF version in Spec

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi Scott,

OK, now I understand.  This is fixed.

Lincoln

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 01:58 pm, Scott Markel wrote:
> The XML response to the types command contains a required GFF tag.  That
> tag has a required version attribute.  The DAS 1.52 specification says
> that the "current version is (arbitrarily) 1.0".
>
> The XML response to the features command also contains a required GFF
> tag.  It, too, has a required version attribute.  The specification says
> that the "current version is (arbitrarily) 0.95".
>
> Based on the thread traffic it seems that the version is irrelevant.  If
> that is indeed the case, the version attribute should be removed or at
> least made optional.  If the attribute remains, the two versions should
> be the same.
>
> Scott
>
> Lincoln Stein wrote:
> > Use the XML format specified in the DAS specification.  It is derived
> > from GFF in terms of the field names, but does not otherwise follow the
> > GFF tab-delimited specification.
> >
> > Lincoln
> >
> > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:05 pm, Ewan Birney wrote:
> > > Sorry to be dense here, but GFF is a tab deliminted spec and DAS
> > > is an XML spec - why does the DAS spec refer to GFF except in a kinda
> > > passing "we're semantically similar to GFF" and why are people worried
> > > about the version number?
> > >
> > >
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