VOTable 1.5 Working Draft (2023-09-13)

[Francois Ochsenbein]

Hi Markus,

Thank you for your fast answers and clarifications !

François

>On 2023-10-17 09:11+0200, Markus Demleitner wrote:

>Hi François,
>
>On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 09:01:13PM +0200, Francois Ochsenbein wrote:
>> Thank you Markus for this summary. I did notice the change in
>> section 3.2 "name, ID and ref attributes" and imagined that the
>> change in COOSYS was the motivation ; you say it's an "unrelated
>> issue" ; I'm just curious to learn more about this issue ? And among
>> the "alternative proposals" you
>
>It was this: https://github.com/ivoa-std/VOTable/issues/27 -- and as
>I said, the general realisation that streaming VOTable metadata
>sections is *very* hard given everything that has happened since
>VOTable 1.1.
>
>> are quoting the "Aladin method" — does topcat use a different method
>> ?
>
>I don't think TOPCAT tries to do epoch propagation, but I'll leave
>further comments to Mark.
>
>> And anyway the section 7 should be updated to reflect the changes
>> before any recommendation. On the style I feel the suppression of
>> space between paragraphs (the \parskip) makes reading somewhat
>> uncomfortable (in a comparison between 1.4 and 1.5 versions).
>
>Yeah, that's because Mark thankfully ported the whole thing to
>ivoatex, which makes quite a few things simpler.  Changing my hat: As
>ivoatex maintainer, I'm open to suggestions to change default styles.
>The right place for that is over at docstd at ivoa.net (though I'll
>admit that matters of taste and habit are usually hard to resolve
>consensually).
>
>In the VOTable case, since we're fiddling quite a bit with the
>default layout and thus the lines are too long for my taste anyway,
>and the parindent that ivoatex does by default to make paragraphs
>more conspicuous is nixed, I'd absolutely not veto a parskip=0.5ex or
>so.
>
>         -- Markus
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