Hi all,
I didn't take part to the discussion last week (starting reading it when it
was nearly over - typical time scale problem for me ;-) ), but I am
strongly in favor of Arnold's compromise. For me the point is
not only that lists are presently not supported but that spatial
coordinates play really a slightly different role. (at least in the
case of RA and DEC, mais be different for a X,Y,Z frame for interplanetary
medium description) . Building the Characterization model which maakes reuse of STC
components we faced this list syntax problems monthes ago to build our
utypes and I was in favor of this splitting out. I am glad to see that
VOEvent people have shared the same concerns, and I would like to thank
Armold for the effort. By the Way I have nothing using lists in XML in general
of course, as was allready pointed out by other people even VOTable allows arrays
of values...
Best regards to all
François
>From: Rob Seaman <seaman-at-noao.edu>
>Subject: Re: Expressing 2- and 3-D coordinates
>Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:55:38 -0700
>To: dm-at-ivoa.net
>X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.35
>
>On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Arnold Rots wrote:
>
>< STC for the time being converts to enumerating the vector
>< components as in my first message, and may change back to list
>< types when list support is firmly there. [...[ The STC schemata
>< will be adapted accordingly.
>
>That seems like a good compromise to me. The question remains
>whether there is a consensus from all parties in support of this.
>This isn't the best time of year to promote efficient communication,
>but folks should comment if they are either in strong support or
>strong disagreement. Those who are in the fuzzy middle are either
>more interested in seeing a consensus than in what that consensus
>might be (like me) - or else simply don't care much either way.
>
>Thanks to Arnold for remaining flexible and patient.
>
>Rob
>
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