<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The selection of the suffix _xel was inspired by the name pixel and voxel. It is the number of elements<div class="">for the given axis.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Daniel</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 11, 2016, at 8:50 AM, Laurent Michel <<a href="mailto:laurent.michel@astro.unistra.fr" class="">laurent.michel@astro.unistra.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Mark,<br class=""><br class="">There was many discussions about the choice of this suffix.<br class="">As it can represents various elment types we looked for a name not referring to any usual quantity. Thus npix or ndim have been <br class="">discarded. The 2 last candidates were _xel and _nel and we finally kept _xel. I couldn't remember why.<br class="">As your request for changing it is not very strong and according to the fact that Pat already have an implementation, I would <br class="">suggest to keep it as it is.<br class=""><br class="">Laurent<br class=""><br class="">Le 09/03/2016 12:39, Mark Taylor a écrit :<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear DM,<br class=""><br class="">I don't have a strong interest in ObsCore, but skimming it<br class="">I have one comment.<br class=""><br class="">The name of the new model entries *_xel, designating number of<br class="">elements along a given axis, seems a bit strange to me.<br class="">If I saw an item named t_nel I'd guess that it means number of<br class="">elements, but t_xel sounds mysterious. Is there a good reason<br class="">for this name? It's not a big deal, and if this is already<br class="">written in to existing implementations I'm not seriously suggesting<br class="">changing it, but if it's still easy to change it might be worth<br class="">reconsidering.<br class=""><br class="">Mark<br class=""><br class="">On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Louys Mireille wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear DAL and DM members ,<br class=""><br class="">The new release for The ObsCore1.1/ObsTAP specification is now on line at<br class=""><a href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ObsCoreDMvOnedotOne" class="">http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ObsCoreDMvOnedotOne</a><br class=""><br class="">in the pdf version : WD-ObsCore-v1.1-20160224.pdf<br class=""><http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/ObsCoreDMvOnedotOne/WD-ObsCore-v1.1-20160224.pdf><br class="">this is an update of the recent uploaded version and will soon be on the<br class="">Document repository .<br class=""><br class="">The Working Group review period starts*is running from 14 th of February till<br class="">15th of March*.<br class=""><br class="">Updated sections and changes will be easy to spot in this version: they are<br class="">printed in colors : green , purple and red.<br class="">See also the "Changes" section.<br class=""><br class="">Eager to read your comments , and suggestions either on the DM list or on the<br class="">wiki page.<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks<br class="">Mireille Louys , on behalf of Laurent Michel<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">--<br class="">Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK<br class=""><a href="mailto:m.b.taylor@bris.ac.uk" class="">m.b.taylor@bris.ac.uk</a> +44-117-9288776 <a href="http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/" class="">http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/</a><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">jesuischarlie<br class=""><br class="">Laurent Michel<br class="">SSC XMM-Newton<br class="">Tél : +33 (0)3 68 85 24 37<br class="">Fax : +33 (0)3 )3 68 85 24 32<br class=""><a href="mailto:laurent.michel@astro.unistra.fr" class="">laurent.michel@astro.unistra.fr</a> <<a href="mailto:laurent.michel@astro.unistra.fr" class="">mailto:laurent.michel@astro.unistra.fr</a>><br class="">Université de Strasbourg <<a href="http://www.unistra.fr" class="">http://www.unistra.fr</a>><br class="">Observatoire Astronomique<br class="">11 Rue de l'Université<br class="">F - 67200 Strasbourg<br class=""><a href="http://amwdb.u-strasbg.fr/HighEnergy/spip.php?rubrique34" class="">http://amwdb.u-strasbg.fr/HighEnergy/spip.php?rubrique34</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>