VODataService becoming WD, then PR

[Mark Taylor]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Patrick Dowler wrote:

> An obvious example is that ADQL makes it possible to have columns of
> type "region" and return them in a select. The TAP spec will have to say that
> the VOTable FIELD will be datatype="char" and arraysize-"*" and the content
> will be encoded (STC/S encoding) as a string. I do not know off hand if the
> FIELD allows one to say that the value is encoded; if not, then specs will

I'm afraid not.  I attempted to introduce an encoding-type FIELD attribute 
which was intended for this sort of thing some while ago, but it 
was rejected (I still think it would be a useful addition for this
and other purposes).

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