Some confusion in cone-search

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Guy Rixon wrote:

> Hi Pierre,
> 
> AFAIK, and having just reviewed the standards, you have to use UCD 1 to comply
> with cone search 1.03 and must not use UCD1+. You may use UCD 1 rather than
> UCD 1+ in VOTable 1.1, but it's a shame to do so. Anybody who parses VOTable
> 1.1 must be prepared to deal with UCD 1 as well as UCD1+.
> 
> To the group: any chance that we could do a quick cone-search 1.1 that allows
> both UCD1 and UCD1+? All cone-search 1.03 code would automatically be valid in
> the new version.

As Tom notes, although this would not invalidate any server-side code,
it would mean that client-side code would need to understand UCD1+ as
well as UCD1.  Which is not to say I'm against the idea.

Mark

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