Text files copied from Esri's Virtual Campus web course Understanding Geographic Data were touted as being FGDC-compliant. Few passed through MP without some kind of warning. This is a link to the copied files and steps taken to make the files completley FGDC-complaint and convert the text files to XML. Hopefully links to the actual metadata in a clearinghouse will be added, too.
No errors, 5 warnings.
8 errors: 5 unrecognized, 1 misplaced, 2 missing.
Each is slightly different:
Text (map on the left) initial errors:
204 errors: 110 unrecognized, 42 misplaced, 50 missing, 2 empty.
XML (map on the right) initial errors:
29 errors: 26 missing, 2 empty, 1 bad value.
9 errors: 6 unrecognized, 1 misplaced, 2 missing.
The content is much similar than in the DRG files. The formatting was the major difference. There were some pieces of information missing in both areas and other pieces found in one and not in the other.
9 errors: 6 unrecognized, 1 misplaced, 2 missing. (Both have the same errors on the same lines.)
There were several different "flavors" of DLG's available for download from Earth Explorer and two different ways to access metadata (no true FGDC files were downloaded with the data):
1768 errors: 603 unrecognized, 273 misplaced, 892 missing.
776 errors: 68 unrecognized, 387 misplaced, 275 missing, 46 empty.
9 errors: 6 unrecognized, 1 misplaced, 2 missing.
378 errors: 175 unrecognized, 102 misplaced, 83 missing, 18 empty.
430 errors: 45 unrecognized, 222 misplaced, 132 missing, 31 empty.
180 errors: 154 missing, 25 empty, 1 bad value.
164 errors: 142 missing, 19 empty, 3 bad value.
No errors, 1 warning.