TAP1.0 Comments

[Francois Ochsenbein]

Oh yes, most topcat users will love this addition !
And if possible keeping the input/output symmetry
(possiblity saving all tables in a FITS or VOTable file :-)

Merci, Francois

>
>On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Markus Demleitner wrote:
>
>> > There are really many cases where getting as a result more than
>> > one table is useful and brings a lot more efficiency: the example
>> [Non-normative: I've already had users come to me complaining they
>> "couldn't read" a VOTable they got back from NED -- and sure enough,
>> it was such a multi-table beast, and I had to admit that using
>> generic tools like topcat, such tables aren't very attractive.  So, I
>
>I am happy to admit that for TOPCAT at least this is basically a
>long-standing defect of the application.  I hope to rectify it in the
>forseeable future, so that pointing TOPCAT at a multi-table file
>(e.g. multi-TABLE VOTable or multi-extension FITS file) will
>load all the tables rather than just the first one, which is what
>it does now.
>
>This comment may be slightly relevant to the discussion at hand,
>but I am not here weighing in on either side of it.
>
>Mark
>
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>Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
>m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
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