Re: Empty TD element wording

From: Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor-at-bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:25:22 +0100 (BST)


On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Clive Page wrote:

> have seen little evidence of need for more than one. I think it would be
> more productive to work on a standard way of expressing the notion of
> upper (or lower) limits - something which is so far missing from most
> astronomical formats.

VOTable does provide such limits (MIN and MAX subelements of VALUES), but I don't get the impression they are widely used (I'm afraid none of my software writes them or does anything with such elements if they are present).

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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Received on 2006-06-21Z10:26:09