concept representation/displaying language?

[Roy Williams]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Carlos Rodrigo Blanco wrote:

>>> In some cases, we have to include in VOTables quantities (params, fields...)
>>> that are not predefined in a protocol or data model or whatever (the point is:
>>> no application will have a precoded way to handle it) I would like to be able to tell 
>>> the client (application) how that quantity should be displayed (formated). 

Francois, Mark,

A very simple trick I have been doing in my applications is to use the 
UCD to determine presentation: if the ucd is "meta.ref.url", then the 
value is known to be a URL link, and treated accordingly. Similarly with 
meta.ref.ivorn.

Roy

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