spectral WCS in FITS

[Anita Richards]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Markus Dolensky wrote:

> > However
> > unless I ahve misunderstood the debate, there is no question that the data
> > _can_ be handled, it is simply a question of how,
>
> The question is whether we can perform the conversion between VOTable and FITS
> format using off the shelve tools (XSLT). If not we need to write Astronomy
> specific parsers which 'understand' the data whereas we would prefer to apply
> just syntax rules instead.
>
> Markus
>
>
>

For FITS to VOTable, there is also the tool being developed by VO India
http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/votableStreamWriter.htm
which is indended to eventually cope with FITS.

But what about the reverse? That is more difficult, surely?

cheers
a

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