Re: Any recommendations on development software?

From: Sonali A. Kale <sonali-at-pspl.co.in>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:42:35 +0530


Hi,

    We have a VOTable parser developed in C++ which is available at
http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/html/iucaawriteup.htm

Currently this has read-only facility, you cannot write VOTables using this parser. We will soon be adding the write facility and streaming support for reading large VOTables.


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> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has recommendations on development software
> for working with VOTables, XML Schema or FITS files. Particular areas
> we're interested in here are:
>
> XML Binders --- the Caltech group used Breeze to create and distribute a
> Java class hierarchy (JAVOT) for manipulating VOTable data, reading and
> creating VOTable files. Are there features that recommend Breeze over
> alternatives, such as Sun's JAXB?
>
> Are any of the participants working with a C++ binder and class library?
>
> FITS file libraries --- we're trying the Java package nom.tam.fits. Any
> other suggestions?
>
> Just to give some context, to support our demo system we're writing some
> translators to reformat FITS headers from several example archives into
> VOTables. We're presently using Java, nom.tam.fits and JAVOT, though
> we're early enough in development to change if we want. We're making
> some very provisional object definitions, such as a WCSXFORM object to
> encapsulate the pixel-to-sky coordinate transformation, so we may need
> to experiment with with modifications to the VOTable schema, which is
> why we're interested in the XML binder.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> Steve
>
>
Received on 2002-11-11Z10:16:56