TAP WD 1.0: disentangling query types and query languages

[Patrick Dowler]

Sure, that's an easy change and better organised as well :)

On Friday 10 July 2009 09:12:45 Alberto Micol wrote:
> Dear TAP Authors,
>
> the "1.1 Query Types" paragraph mentions three different kinds of
> queries: data/metadata/vosi
> but then one reads:
>
> 1.1.1 Data queries
> 1.1.2 Metadata queries
> 1.1.3 VOSI
> 1.1.4 ADQL queries
> 1.1.5 PQL queries
> 1.1.6 Other query languages
>
> I find that misleading.
> Even more so given the fact that ADQL and PQL are both able to perform
> Data and Metadata queries.
>
> The type of query as nothing to do with the language used to perform
> such queries,
> those two concepts should not get intermixed.
>
> May I suggest the following structure:
>
> 1.1 Query types
>     1.1.1 data ...
>     1.1.2 metadata ...
>     ...
>
> 1.2 Query languages
>     1.2.1 ADQL
>     1.2.2 PQL
>     1.2.3 Other query languages
>
> 1.3 Query execution
>     ...
>
> etc.
>
> ?
>
> Thanks,
> Alberto

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