Shape as primitive with representations.

[Patrick Dowler]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 06:01, Markus Demleitner via dm <dm at ivoa.net> wrote:
> So, I'd say DM should say not much more than "shapes are serialised
> in whatever way the container formats wants them; in VOTable, use
> PARAM-s to store literals".

I agree with this. Serialization may differ depending on the format
and DALI already
says how to serialize in VOTable (sometimes referring to other
standards like ISO8601
or MOC when appropriate). That advice may or may not be applicable in
other formats.

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Patrick Dowler
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Victoria, BC, Canada