Re: VOTable discussions

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:01:34 +0000 (GMT)

> ...but Roy's suggestion of having a tool to transform VOTables into
> "hardXML" would indeed be interesting for applications making usage of
> generic XML tools -- I imagine that the overhead of such conversions
> would not be important for "small" tables (and could be driven by XSLT
> scripts)

Yes, thinking about it a bit more, I'm more and more convinced that this is a good idea. We keep and extend what we have, while creating tools (and associated schemas) to translate it to (and from?) a "proper" XML document which (while very verbose) could be handled by generic XML tools.

Al.

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