Re: VOTable Questions

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:07:11 +0100 (BST)

> 1) We did not see any way to describe (in a machine-readable

> form) the number of rows found from a query, or the
> number of rows returned...

This is actually something I'd find useful too, it would save you having to parse the entire table just to find out how big it was, and I don't think there is a standard way of doing it, although I might have overlooked one?

It seems like something people would want to do, so if there isn't already a way to do it, maybe an _optional_ attribute to TABLEDATA like...

  <DATA>
    <TABLEDATA ROWS="2344">      

...would be the way to go? Any support? Disagreement? Or just no interest?

Al.

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Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter
Received on 2003-10-23Z13:08:49