spectral WCS in FITS

[Marco C. Leoni]

Anita,
    about the conversions FITS<--->VOTable there was the proposal from 
Andreas, please have a look at: http://www.ivoa.net/forum/votable/0217.htm


Cheers,
    Marco


Anita Richards wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Markus Dolensky wrote:
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>>>However
>>>unless I ahve misunderstood the debate, there is no question that the data
>>>_can_ be handled, it is simply a question of how,
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>>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.
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>>Markus
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>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.
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>But what about the reverse? That is more difficult, surely?
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>cheers
>a
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