TAP questions

[Dave Morris]

On 2018-03-07 08:52, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> 
> Well, so far in the VO we do not really distinguish between the
> various VOTable serialisations, except perhaps that external FITS
> entities may confuse many libraries.  So, if you're ordering VOTable,
> there's no guarantees whether you'll get back BINARY or TABLEDATA.
> 

There are cases where users will want to process the results as XML, 
possibly using something like an XSLT parser, in which case they will 
want some way to be able to specify the XML form.

Dave

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Dave Morris
Research Software Engineer
Wide Field Astronomy Unit
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
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