concept representation/displaying language?

[Carlos Rodrigo Blanco]

By the way, your trick is usefull only for PARAM's, not FIELD's, am I 
right?

Carlos

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Roy Williams wrote:

> 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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