Updated VOTable 1.5 Working Draft

[Francois Ochsenbein]

Hello,

Thanks to Tom for this last version of VOTable 1.5. Just a couple of
comments:

* section 3.5 (on TIMESYS): shouldn't the list of allowed timescale
  values be listed, as are the system COOSYS values? The same remark
  applies on the list of refposition, listed for COOSYS, but not for
  TIMESYS (both share the same list). It looks also strange to me that
  the system attribute in COOSYS is optional, while the timescale
  attribute in TIMESYS is required — shouldn't this be harmonized ?

* Appendix B: shouldn't it be replaced by the V1.5 schema ?

Also, in section 4.7, the blank in xtype ="circle" should be removed.

And last, for the comfort in reading the document, some additional
space between the paragraphs (the \parskip value) would be nice.

Thank you for letting me participate in the discussion !
Cheers,
François Ochsenbein

On 2023-10-24, 14:40+0000,
    Tom Donaldson <tdonaldson at stsci.edu> wrote:

> Dear Applications Working Group,
>
>As the result of recent discussions on this list and on Zoom, the
>working draft for VOTable 1.5 has been updated with the changes listed
>below.  The new working draft can be found at
>https://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/20231022/.
>
>- Removed the proposal for handling epoch propagation via COOSYS
>children FIELDRef and PARAMRef (originally added with PR
>https://github.com/ivoa-std/VOTable/pull/40).
>
>- Completed section 9.4, "Differences Between Versions 1.4 and 1.5".
>
>- Updated the diagram in section 7.2 to include the new refposition
>attribute on COOSYS.
>
>
>
>The document is probably close to its final state and we are close to
>the Interop meeting, so now is a great time to review this document.
>Now is also a great time to provide implementations and validators
>that include the new features.  If you are considering providing a
>pull request for Astropy, please let this list know to prevent
>duplication of effort and/or to allow collaboration.
>
>Once we have achieved the items below, this Working Draft can be
>promoted to Proposed Recommendation for formal review in the wider
>community.  With the limited changes in this version, I'm hoping we
>can meet these requirements quickly:
> - reach consensus within this working group
> - can demonstrate at least two interoperable implementations of each
> new feature
> - provide at least one validator
>
>Best regards,
>Tom
>
>
>
>
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