UCD elements

Ed Shaya edward.j.shaya.1 at gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Jul 1 09:45:49 PDT 2004


I would think either
<plus:ucd>mass</plus:ucd>
or
<ucd plus:type="mass"/>
or
<Mass plus:ucd="mass"><units>...
Depending on the circumstances.
where xmlns:plus="http://ivoa.net/ucd/ucd1+.xsd"

Ed


Martin Hill wrote:

> At the moment we have an element called <UCD> that contains UCD v1 
> values.  We are now talking about UCD1+ which are different; what 
> element name should we use for these?  <UCD_PLUS> ?
>
> It would be Bad to use the same element, as the values are really of 
> different types (and so interpreting it will be ambiguous).  However 
> we might be able to get away with it this once as it is still early 
> days, and I gather no-one has data lying around in VO formats that 
> they intend to keep for long!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
>




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