Impact [major | minor] ? minor
There are two issues with the Modality value:
1. Within the schema definition, the enumerated values for Scent and DNA are repeated, this needs to be corrected.
2. The specification says "If an implementation is exposing an unlisted modality, it may use another value." In practice, because the xsd declares enumerations, the implementing language may not be able to process any value not in the list. For example, in Java, an Enum is declared with all of the corresponding allowed values. When XML is unmarshalled into an Enum type, there is NO way to store a value that has not been enumerated. The resulting object will be null (if it doesn't fail entirely)
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