The Napkin Representation

Alasdair Allan aa at astro.ex.ac.uk
Mon Jul 2 14:33:13 PDT 2007


Brad Cavanagh wrote:
> Would a more compact version like this work?
>
> <TimeSeries type="delta_t">
>   <Meta>
>     <Param name="first" value="2007-07-01T21:44:00+0000"  
> ucd="time.epoch;" units="iso8601" />
>     <Time units="s" uncertainty="0.5" />
>     <Flux type="mag" band="R" uncertainty="0.01" />
>   </Meta>
>   <Data>
>     <Row number="1">
>       <Time>0</Time>
>       <Flux>13.2</Flux>
>     </Row>
>     <Row number="2">
>       <Time>1</Time>
>       <Flux>13.3</Flux>
>     </Row>
>      .
>      .
>      .
>   </Data>
> </TimeSeries>
>
> ...i.e. set up default Time/Flux metainfo that would apply to all  
> Time/Flux values in the Data section, allowing them to be  
> overridden through explicit values in the Time/Flux sections in  
> Al's quoted example?

Nope, that'd work.

Al.



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