Any recommendations on development software?

[Sonali A. Kale]

Hi,

    We have a VOTable parser developed in C++
which is available at 
http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/html/iucaawriteup.htm

Currently this has read-only facility, you cannot
write VOTables using this parser. We will soon
be adding the write facility and streaming support
for reading large VOTables.

- Thanks,
Sonali

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Lowe" <slowe at head-cfa.harvard.edu>
To: <votable at us-vo.org>; <metadata at us-vo.org>; <dm at us-vo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: Any recommendations on development software?


> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has recommendations on development software
> for working with VOTables, XML Schema or FITS files. Particular areas
> we're interested in here are:
> 
> XML Binders --- the Caltech group used Breeze to create and distribute a
> Java class hierarchy (JAVOT) for manipulating VOTable data, reading and
> creating VOTable files. Are there features that recommend Breeze over
> alternatives, such as Sun's JAXB?
> 
> Are any of the participants working with a C++ binder and class library?
> 
> FITS file libraries --- we're trying the Java package nom.tam.fits. Any
> other suggestions?
> 
> Just to give some context, to support our demo system we're writing some
> translators to reformat FITS headers from several example archives into
> VOTables. We're presently using Java, nom.tam.fits and JAVOT, though
> we're early enough in development to change if we want. We're making
> some very provisional object definitions, such as a WCSXFORM object to
> encapsulate the pixel-to-sky coordinate transformation, so we may need
> to experiment with with modifications to the VOTable schema, which is
> why we're interested in the XML binder.
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> Steve
> 
>