GDS: double entries in .das metadata

[Jennifer Adams]

Dan,
The only way I am able to reproduce a duplicate a metadata field like
that is if there are two identical entries in the gds.xml file. Did you
look carefully through it for two instances of the "weasd" units
declaration? When I look at the .info page for the example you gave
(instead of the .das) I noticed that there are a bunch of global
"units" attributes -- must be something slightly wrong with the way
you've got the metadata tags in your config file. Perhaps a better
long-term solution is to put the extra metadata fields in the
descriptor files instead of the gds config files -- that would simplify
your configuration files A LOT and put control of the metadata at the
descriptor file level.
Jennifer



On Jul 14, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Dan Swank wrote:

> All,
>
> We are in the final stages of setting up an Live Access Server on top
> of
> our GDS.  In one stage of pulling in data, the LAS reads from the GDS
> .das information.  It came to my attention that some variables were not
> working becuase the .das contained double entries for certain..
> seemingly random - variables, which cuases problems.
> for example:  var[weasd] in
> http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:9091/dods/NCEP_NAM/subsets/
> nam_218_precip_048_051.das
>
> Also noticed that some of the variables have more information than
> others.  In our configuration file, I only specified <metadata> units
> tags for each variable and nothing else.
> Running latest version of GDS and GrADS.
>
> Does anyone know what could cuase this?
> Could it be something inconsistant in the control files the gds parses?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Dan Swank <dan.swank at noaa.gov>
> NCDC/NOMADS programmer
> Contractor - STG, Incorporated
> 151 Patton Avenue, Room 514
> Asheville, NC 28801
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>
>
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Jennifer Miletta Adams
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
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Calverton, MD 20705 USA
jma at cola.iges.org