A.20.IR29.ds.specification.md

#A.20.IR29.ds.specification

Purpose: For every conformity statement, one citation of the product specification or user requirement against which data is being evaluated must be given.

Prerequisites

• A.01.validate must be passed

Test method

The test first checks if there is at least one specification. In case there is none, a warning is thrown. It then performs the following checks

• The specification must contain an element of type gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:title which should not be an empty characterstring
• The specification must contain an element of type gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date[.//gmd:dateType//text()='{type}']/*/gmd:date, where {type} is one of creation, revision and publication.

Reference(s)

• TG MD, 2.8.2, Req 29
• IR MD Part B. 7.2

Test type: Automated

Notes

##Contextual XPath references

The namespace prefixes used as described in README.md.

Abbreviation	XPath expression (relative to gmd:MD_Metadata)
specification	./gmd:dataQualityInfo//gmd:report//gmd:result/*/specification