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Re: More Schema Changes

We've been making some more changes to the schema, hopefully that should be it for a while now! They are:

1. Renamed TaxonGroup to TaxonReportingCategory. This element reports Taxon Reporting Categories, so the name change is to make this more explicit. The Request and Response elements have also been renamed.

2. The attribute status has been renamed to designation and the enumeration integer values have been replaced by meaningful names. i.e. 'BIODIVERSITY_ACTION_PLAN' instead of '1'

New web services
(Documentation for these will follow over the next few days.)

1. TaxonReportingCategoryNameRequest - looks up a taxon reporting category name by its ID

2. KnownSiteNameRequest - looks up a known site name, i.e. SSSI, by its ID

3. KnownSiteListRequest - Returns a list of known sites, i.e. SSSI names held on the Gateway.

Note, the documentation on the NBN Gateway Library section is now a little out fo date. We will be working this week to update and provide examples for the new web services.

thanks

Richard

[b]Richard Ostler[/b]
NBN Developer