A.28.md.creation.date.md

#A.28.md.creation.date

Purpose: A metadata date must be given.

Prerequisites

• A.01.validate must be passed

Test method

The test checks if there is an element of type gco:Date at dateStamp.

Reference(s)

• TG MD Chap. 2.11.2
• IR MD Part B. 10.2

Test type: Automated

Notes

The metadata date is not explicitly a requirement in the TG, but it's still mentioned as "Mandatory" INSPIRE element(?).

Contextual XPath references

The namespace prefixes used as described in README.md.

Abbreviation	XPath expression (relative to gmd:MD_Metadata)
dateStamp	./gmd:dateStamp