EML

targeting for 2.1.0, although may drop back to unspecified.

schema bugs targeted for 2.1.0 set to P1

The methodsType elements are children of <methods> or <method> elements in several mnodules:
eml-attribute.xsd:
<xs:element name="method" type="md:MethodsType" minOccurs="0">
eml-dataset.xsd:
<xs:element name="methods" type="md:MethodsType" minOccurs="0">
eml-entity.xsd:
<xs:element name="method" type="md:MethodsType" minOccurs="0">
eml-methods.xsd:
<xs:element name="methods" type="MethodsType">

the xpaths in instance documents:
eml/dataset/methods
eml/dataset/dataTable/method
eml/dataset/dataTable/attributeList/attribute/method

the declarations will be standardized to
<xs:element name="methods" type="md:MethodsType" ...>

for these reasons:
1. the type is called MethodsType (plural) in the imported methods module,
2. it can be composed of multiple <methodStep> elements (or other) children,
3. use of a plural noun is common common practice in XML to contain multiple singular children of the same noun, which means that if the methods module is expanded in the future, <method> children (singular) could be inserted to contain the <methodStep>s

don't close this bug till you update the pngs for:
dataTable
entity
spatialRaster
spatialVector
storedProcedure
view

all these ref the EntityGroup (changed in rev 1.86)

this is done, except for the documentation PNGs, which are now all listed in bug #3600. so this one can be closed.

Just adding a summary of what Jing and I found for method/s declarations:

These 2 were already declared as "methods" and dont need to be changed:
eml-dataset.xsd: <xs:element name="methods" type="md:MethodsType" minOccurs="0">
eml-methods.xsd: <xs:element name="methods" type="MethodsType">

This path need to be changed: attribute/method
eml-attribute.xsd: <xs:element name="method" type="md:MethodsType" minOccurs="0">

and those that use the EntityGroup:
otherEntity/method
dataTable/method
spatialRaster/method
spatialVector/method
view/method

eml-entity.xsd: <xs:group name="EntityGroup">
eml-entity.xsd: <xs:element name="method" type="md:MethodsType" minOccurs="0">
eml-dataTable.xsd: <xs:group ref="ent:EntityGroup"/>
eml-entity.xsd: <xs:group ref="EntityGroup"/>
eml-spatialRaster.xsd: <xs:group ref="ent:EntityGroup"/>
eml-spatialVector.xsd: <xs:group ref="ent:EntityGroup"/>
eml-storedProcedure.xsd: <xs:group ref="ent:EntityGroup"/>
eml-view.xsd: <xs:group ref="ent:EntityGroup"/>

Original Bugzilla ID was 2568