Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-24 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Martin, Roy et al. I understand exactly what you want - or at least I thing I do. I think that you would like to enter a URL representing the concept 'carbon monoxide' and get back a document giving you all the Standard Names pertaining to carbon monoxide. Am I right? I appreciate

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-24 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
: Jonathan Gregory [j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk] Sent: 24 September 2012 17:53 To: Schultz, Martin Cc: Lowry, Roy K.; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Dear Martin, Roy et al. I understand exactly what you want - or at least

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-24 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk Subject: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Sorry if this is an ignorant/newbie question, but can I ask if the grammar for CF std_names implicitly provides a check on duplicates? Simon -Original

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-24 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
@csiro.au; jgrayb...@ucsd.edu; Cameron-smith, Philip Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk Subject: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Hello Simon, If you're referring to syntactic duplicates then providing the controlled

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-24 Thread Simon.Cox
To: Cox, Simon (CESRE, Kensington); jgrayb...@ucsd.edu; cameronsmi...@llnl.gov Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk Subject: RE: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Hello Simon, If you're referring to syntactic duplicates then providing

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Of John Graybeal [jgrayb...@ucsd.edu] Sent: 22 September 2012 00:09 To: Cameron-smith, Philip Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; Jonathan Gregory Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table I like this. I may be a step behind, but given a grammar parser

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Schultz, Martin
Dear Philip, John and others, I take the point that indeed a grammar approach would be the solution to my problem. However, the grammar as it once stood based on Jonathan's python program (which indeed works quite nicely) unfortunately doesn't help with respect to the problem that I

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
: CF-metadata [cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Schultz, Martin [m.schu...@fz-juelich.de] Sent: 22 September 2012 16:26 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Dear Philip, John and others, I take

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-22 Thread Schultz, Martin
. From: CF-metadata [cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Schultz, Martin [m.schu...@fz-juelich.de] Sent: 22 September 2012 16:26 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Dear

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-18 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Martin, Roy, John, Robert Reading the last few days' emails all at once I have may have skipped important details; if so, apologies for that. I too am in favour of a grammar, such as my earlier attempt http://climate.ncas.ac.uk/~jonathan/CF_metadata/14.1/ Robert subsequently coded this

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-18 Thread Bryan Lawrence
@cgd.ucar.edu; Brown, Juan Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table Hello Roy, On 14/09/12 08:23, Lowry, Roy K. wrote: Dear All, I am becoming concerned that a 'design by committee' data modelling process for Standard Names is unfolding

[CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-13 Thread Schultz, Martin
Dear all, during the recent discussion on compound_name as additional tag in the standard_names.xml file and in relation to track ticket #90 it occurred to me that another useful addition could be to express the need of certain variable attributes in this table as well. This refers to the

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-13 Thread Robert Muetzelfeldt
Hi Martin, Is there some reason why the entry element must have a flat set of sub-elements, as in your example below?It seems to me that from an XML data-design point-of-view, a neater data model would be: entry id=... compound_name.../compound_name See note [1] below