spectral WCS in FITS

[Anita Richards]

Yes but "The binary data is still kept as external links in a STREAM
element"

If that is what we are talking about then there is no problem... what I
*thought* was the problem included the possibility of converting spectral
data in the form of FITS tables entirely to VOTable (probably OK?) and
back again.  But if no-one wants to do that, that is fine...

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Dr. Anita M. S. Richards, AVO Astronomer
MERLIN/VLBI National Facility, University of Manchester,
Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, U.K.
tel +44 (0)1477 572683 (direct); 571321 (switchboard); 571618 (fax).


On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Marco C. Leoni wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>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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> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >Dr. Anita M. S. Richards, AVO Astronomer
> >MERLIN/VLBI National Facility, University of Manchester,
> >Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, U.K.
> >tel +44 (0)1477 572683 (direct); 571321 (switchboard); 571618 (fax).
> >
> >
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