Expressing 2- and 3-D coordinates

Alberto Micol Alberto.Micol at eso.org
Tue Dec 13 07:30:09 PST 2005


On Dec 13, 2005, at 15:58, Alberto Micol wrote:
>
> - Would it be so difficult to modify the VOTable schema to allow arrays
> within a tabular cell?
>
> - How difficult would it be for the average XML parser to understand 
> it?

Sorry, that was a silly remark. Indeed the VOTABLE cell can contain
an array. It is just that the coordinates are split into two cells
which are grouped together... So my correct question should have been:

- Why the coordinates cannot be treated as an array in VOTable?

Sorry for the confusion.

Alberto



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