Issue 8052: ‘SizeRange’ in StringDataType is ambiguous                                                                                                                                                              (xtce-ftf)
Source: Integral Systems (Mr. Charles Gerry Simon, gsimon@integ.com)
Nature: Revision
Severity: Minor
Summary: ‘SizeRange’ in StringDataType is ambiguous ‘SizeRange’ in StringDataType is ambiguous because it’s unclear if the size is in characters, or bytes, or bits or something else. This Element name violates one of the XTCE conventions “Hints on units (for values with units) are provided in the names of attributes”.

Resolution: 
Revised Text: Resolution:
Rename 'SizeRange' to SizeRangeInCharacters.  This change will only impact XML documents that use the SizeRange.
Revised Text:
<element name="SizeRangeInCharacters" type="xtce:IntegerRangeType" minOccurs="0"/>

Actions taken:
December 31, 2004: received issue
August 2, 2005: closed issue
Discussion: 

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Name: Gerry Simon
Company: Lockheed Martin
mailFrom: gerry.simon@schriever.af.mil
Notification: No
Specification: XTCE
Section: schema
FormalNumber: dtc/03-05-07
Version: 1
RevisionDate: 03/29/2003
Page: all
Nature: Revision
Severity: Minor
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Description
.SizeRange. in StringDataType is ambiguous .SizeRange. in StringDataType is ambiguous because it.s unclear if the size is in characters, or bytes, or bits or something else. This Element name violates one of the XTCE conventions .Hints on units (for values with units) are provided in the names of attributes..