Hello, I am struggling with the INSPIRE GML writer and the new version 5 of the ProtectedSites xsd schema.
Earlier this year, the XSD schema was adjusted, among other things for the following:
- Correction of spelling error in inspireID
- Converting enumeration to code lists
- Adding attribute "thematicIdentifier"
- Datatype of legalFoundationDate to 'Date'
- Changing multiplicity of the elements legalFoundationDate and legalFoundationDocument
See https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/application-schemas/releases/tag/2024.1 and underlying links.
When I retrieve the attributes of the old version 4 schema, I get the list from appendix 1, which includes:
- inspireID.Identifier.localId
- inspireID.Identifier.namespace
- legalFoundationDate
- legalFoundationDocument
- siteDesignation{}.nilReason
- siteDesignation{}.xsi_nil
This worked well for my application.
However, when I now retrieve the attributes of the new version 5 schema, I get the list from appendix 2. In it:
- I do see the corrected inspireId attributes.
- I also see the new ThematicIdentifier attributes.
- But the legalFoundationDate and legalFoundationDocument attributes are not included.
This last point is especially where I have a problem.
I have experimented with a regular OGC GML (Geography Markup Language) readers and writers, and with the INSPIRE GML variant. I am using version FME(R) 2022.2.4.0 (20230303 - Build 22792 - WIN64), but using FME(R) 2024.0.0.0 (20231124 - Build 24125 - WIN64) does not give any different results.
I also tried to download the version 5 xsd and overwrite it to the folder <FME Installation Dir>\xml\schemas\inspire\ps\4.0, that did not help, nor putting it in a new 5.0 folder.
The workspace I created reads a dummy GML, because I only need the schema. The schema comes from the INSPIRE XSD schemas, see the link below. The workspace uses the FeatureReader and I have included it as appendix 3.
My questions:
- Do I have insufficient knowledge of GML/XML, e.g. are the attributes no longer mandatory due to the changed multiplicity and therefore FME no longer retrieves them?
- Does the version 5 schema contain errors that cause the attributes to be missing? However, I do see them in the schema https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/schemas/ps/5.0/ProtectedSites.xsd, see the figure below.
- Is there perhaps a bug in the GML reader/writers of FME? I use the option Select Feature Types by XSD, so an adjustment that is necessary to read schemas by Theme should not be necessary in my opinion.
If anyone has an idea, please let me know.
