Definitive version of the VOTable schema for web services

[Roy Williams]

If only there were some really smart person who understands XML schema 
and WSDL and all that -- who would be kind enough to volunteer to help 
the IVOA by proposing a universal VOTable schema.
Roy


Matthew Graham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I know it has and it's normally this time of year that I make the 
> same request. It would be nice if we could actually sort this out once 
> and for all.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Matthew
>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Alberto Conti wrote:
>
>> I hope you will have more success that I had pointing this out.
>> It has been this way since a long long time ago....
>> -A
>>
>> On Jul 29, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Matthew Graham wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The VOTable schema that exists on the IVOA web site cannot just be 
>>> imported into a WSDL document. There are several web services, e.g. 
>>> Open SkyQuery, SkyNode, WESIX, which have produced their own version 
>>> of the schema to work with WSDL - essentially all the complexTypes 
>>> need to be named and globally defined instead of being anonymous 
>>> under the elements. I was wondering whether the VOTable group could 
>>> produce a sanctioned version of the VOTable 1.1 schema that will 
>>> work with WSDL?
>>>
>>>     Cheers,
>>>
>>>     Matthew
>>
>> Dr Alberto Conti
>> Community Missions Office
>> Space Telescope Science Institute
>> contact | tel: 410-338-4534 | aim: wscience
>>
>>
>

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