Merge pull request #1482 from TheChymera/index_format

[FIX] Revert index (entity format) definition to be a non-negative number, permitting zero

src/common-principles.md

@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ for naming of participants, sessions, acquisition schemes.
 Note that they MUST consist only of allowed characters as described in
 [Definitions](common-principles.md#definitions) above.
 In `<index>`es we RECOMMEND using zero padding (for example, `01` instead of `1`
-if you have more than nine subjects) to make alphabetical sorting more intuitive.
+if some participants have two-digit labels) to make alphabetical sorting more intuitive.
 Note that zero padding SHOULD NOT be used to merely maintain uniqueness
 of `<index>`es.
 

src/schema/objects/formats.yaml

@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
 index:
   display_name: Index
   description: |
-    Non-negative, non-zero integers, optionally prefixed with leading zeros for sortability.
-    An index may not be all zeros.
-  pattern: '[0-9]*[1-9]+[0-9]*'
+    Non-negative, optionally prefixed with leading zeros for better visual homogeneity and sorting.
+  pattern: '[0-9]+'
 label:
   display_name: Label
   description: |