Tom,
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Thomas McGlynn wrote:
> > Well, the USNO-B1 service from Flagstaff adds another twist and writes the
> > RA/DEC as a 3x1 array of doubles (e.g. "12 34 56.7") and not with the
> > traditional
> > colon-delimiters. I can't find another example quickly just now, but
> > I know I've
> > seen sexigesimal in other data sets. Note the registry validation
> > level is 2 and
> > the ConeSearch validator only issues a warning that the 'units' should
> > be in degrees
> > (they're listed as 'hh mm ss", is/would that be different than "hh:mm:ss"?).
> >
>
> The validator doesn't check the format of the numbers, but I
> don't think this should be considered a valid VOTable.
I don't think you can call it invalid, though I admit it's a pain in the neck to make sense of.
> It does point out a serious error/omission in the VOTable definition though,
> in Section 7. For the normal <TABLEDATA> representations that are almost
I think you're looking at an out of date version of the standard. Most of your questions are answered in section 6 of VOTable 1.1:
http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/REC/VOTable/VOTable-20040811.html
Mark
-- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor@bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/Received on 2006-04-20Z21:05:44