Negative elevation in EPW header not allowed

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Negative elevation in EPW header not allowed #1276

Closed joseph-robertson closed 3 months ago

joseph-robertson commented 4 months ago

For example Imperial County CA samples throw:

[10:16:10.993419 ERROR] [openstudio.XMLValidator] xsdValidate.parseFileError: XML error 17.1833: Element '{http://hpxmlonline.com/2023/09}Elevation': [facet 'minInclusive'] The value '-55.8' is less than the minimum value allowed ('0').
    at C:/OpenStudio/resstock/national_baseline/run2895/run/existing.xml:85 while processing "-55.8"

afontani commented 3 months ago

For context, the lowest point in Imperial County, California is the Salton Sea, which is 235 feet below sea level.