Re: VOTable Questions

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:41:42 +0100 (BST)

> > ...maybe an _optional_ attribute to TABLEDATA like...
> >
> > <DATA>
> > <TABLEDATA ROWS="2344">
> >
> > ...would be the way to go? Any support? Disagreement?
>
> Rather than making it an attribute, how about making it an element that
> can occur in <DATA> _after_ the embedded data? That makes the format
> streamable.

The streamability was the reason I specifically mentioned it should be optional, but yes, I can see how this might be better. Although I didn't think it was really significant enough to clutter up the format with its own element.

Hmm, undecided...

Al.

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Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter
Received on 2003-10-23Z13:43:40