call for presentations at the Data Model sessions in Cambridge , September 2007

[Tony Linde]

> VOTable is the basis for making a number of tools very powerful and very
> popular, because it is relatively simple and restricted - so easy for even
> the slightly geeky to understand - but also very easily interconvertible
> with other formats.  For example, I would say that at least half (and

No, VOTable is not the basis, having an interchange standard is the basis
for making those tools more powerful. It certainly is restricted but it is
not simple: it is little more than a representation of CSV in angle
brackets. It certainly is not 'easily interconvertible': XSLT or XQuery is
the standard way of converting between XML and other forms but try doing
that with VOTable.

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dal at eso.org [mailto:owner-dal at eso.org] On Behalf Of Anita
> M. S. Richards
> Sent: 23 January 2008 09:43
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> Subject: Re: call for presentations at the Data Model sessions in
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