RE: VOTable Questions

> > If we're going to use XML we may as well make it so that our format can
> > be read in the raw by "generic" XML tools. Forcing everyone to use a
> > toolkit to read VOTable isn't a great idea, not that toolkits aren't
> > useful, its just the entire point of using XMl in teh first place is
> > that its a standard...?
>
> I do not see what precludes the usage of standard/generic XML tools.

There isn't anything, here at least, I'd strayed off topic into general hand waving...

> You will have two diff tags, hopefully with the same value, the parser
> would find them without ambiguity, wherever they are.

Yes, I take your point, its just having two tags meaning almost exactly the same thing isn't really an _elegant_ solution!

Oh well...

Al.

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Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter