Re: VOTable alternative?

> > > (4) In VOTable2 we split VOTable file into (a) a "record schema" is
> > > made from the metadata of the table, and (b) a conforming document
> > > is made from the data part, that is a sequence of these records.
> > >
> > > Therefore in place of:
> > > <TR> <TD>red</TD> <TD>2.1</TD> </TR>
> > > we see
> > > <colour>red</colour> <mass>2.1</mass>
> >
> > I like it, makes sense to me, hideously verbose, but thats not
> > necessarily a bad thing for small documents being passed between
> > services. For larger documents (tables) the data element will
> > (obviously?) be a binary table and the meta data document will
> > describe it (as we have now)...
>
> I like it too, but I suggest that even for the pure-XML table we provide
> the metadata document in the same form as for the binary tables.

Agreed!

Al.

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