(with apologies if you get multiple copies of this message)
On the Ides of March, version 1.21 of STC has been posted as a Proposed Recommendation. It refers to two implementations that have been published as notes: STC-X and STC-S.
STC-X is the XML implementation that is contained in version 1.20 of the schemata. The version of the Note is 1.00 (maybe I should have synchronized the versions...).
STC-S is the (linear) string implementation that has also been known as LinearSTC.
As you may have suspected, there is a parallel with ADQL/X and ADQL/S and my hope is that the corresponding STC versions will eventually drop in.
After some discussion with Marco, I decided to go with the '-', rather than the '/', since that character lends itself better to inclusion in file names. Maybe VOQL wants to reconsider its naming?
Cheers,
Arnold H. Rots Chandra X-ray Science Center Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory tel: +1 617 496 7701 60 Garden Street, MS 67 fax: +1 617 495 7356 Cambridge, MA 02138 arots-at-head.cfa.harvard.edu USA http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/Received on 2005-03-18Z14:51:23
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