Dapper in-situ conventions spec available

[Joe Sirott]

Rob,

Thanks, this is great -- it really helps to have a validation suite for 
a spec. In fact, I'd say that a spec is close to useless without a 
validation suite.

A couple of comments:

- You need the latest version of Roberto's pydap (at 
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/dap) for this as well as the Python 
egg code (at http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs) to run 
this.
- The testOuterSequenceId test appears to iterate all the way through a 
dataset before completing -- a bit of a problem if you access some of 
the Dapper multi-gigabyte datasets (like the GTSPP or the World Ocean 
Database 2005!)

- Joe

Roberto De Almeida wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Earlier this week I sent Joe a script to validate a given dataset 
> against the Dapper specification:
>
>     http://pydap.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/misc/dappervalidator.py 
> <http://pydap.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/misc/dappervalidator.py>
>
> I wrote the script to quickly check the dapper-compliant server I'm 
> writing. With the growing discussion I thought it would be useful for 
> more people; my plan is to keep the script updated as the 
> specification evolves.
>
> --Roberto