Talk:Darwin:Train Status Element
Hi all, I want to add the following under the 'Actual Times' heading. Please check that it's got the correct information as this is mostly reverse-engineered from the actual data feed as the Thales Group document does not include it:
There are several attributes on
Locationthat can give you the planned arrival/departure times of the train in question:
pta/ptdwhich refer to the public timetable for the service (arrival and departure). You should use these to display train times to users. These are given as HH:MM in 24-hour clock format.wta/wtd/wtpwhich refer to the "working timetable" for the service (arrival, departure, and pass). These should not be used for passenger information, but include an indication that a train will pass by a given station. These are given as HH:MM:SS in 24-hour clock format.
This is actually part of the schema - but I agree there is a better way to get this info out & documented. It also looks like the v.16 schema files here are out of date now - hopefully if a couple of people raise support tickets to the darwind3 address we might be able to get the new version uploaded here.
I was just thinking about this myself last night now I've had some time to play with the Darwin feed. Happy to help out based on my limited experience.
//Q
The schema shouldn't be out-of-date - what are you seeing to suggest it is out of date?
It was mostly based on an email from NRES a while back from the last major upgrade - they announced a new schema was available on request (but the upgrade was none-breaking. My specific issues where caused by a namespace issue with my parser which I've managed to fix now.
//Q
Assimilation Complete - your info on the time fields has been assimilated into the page. //Q