DAL/TAP Response

[Keith Noddle]

> Splitting the two can also been seen as treating param-query as a query 
> language in it's own right (an alternative language to ADQL) and in my 
> opinion there is a good case to be made to do just that. There has always 
> been an idea in the background to allow for use of other query languages 
> (including pass-through native SQL for power users of specific systems, for 
> example)...
> 
> I have not thought about this in much detail, but considerable clarity may be 
> gained by formulating PQ as a simple query language and then determining a 
> consistent way to express it in terms of http-params (obviously attempting to 
> be consistent with existing practice). Just thinking about it this way may 
> help to resolve the tension in the current draft spec.
> 
> Just a thought,
And a good one! Anything that brings these elements closer together is 
worth a lot of thought.

Keith.

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