Minutes MWG 2003-09-25

[Patrick Dowler]

On Thursday 2 October 2003 15:14, Tony Linde wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
> > Slide 2 of Keith's planary presentation at Cambridge
> > (http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2003ResReg/RWP04p
> > lenaryPresentation.pdf)
> > entitled "Accomplishments" has the bullet:  "Agreed to adopt VOQL once
> > available".

At the Cambridge meeting, VOQL was taken to mean "the higher level
abstract query language, probably using XML", which the an immediate,
lower-level langauge based on SQL was also discussed. The latter is now
known as ADQL. So, if the registry group proposed to adopt VOQL, that's
fine, but it is not the same thing as ADQL and does not imply using SQL
in the interface/doc format.

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