Software for Connecting to the VOEvent Backbone

[Joshua Bloom]

Bob,

The "typical VOEvent" example (http://ivoa.net/Documents/REC/VOE/VOEvent-20061101.html#examples) from RAPTOR fails to validate on your page (also in lenient mode). What am I doing wrong?

Josh

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Joshua Bloom
Associate Professor
UC Berkeley, Astronomy
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On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Bob Denny wrote:

> Hello all --
> 
> I've put together a set of free cross-platform tools for getting onto the
> VOEVent backbone. The Dakota Tools for VOEvent run on most popular Linux
> flavors, Max OS X (Leopard and later) and Windows XP/Vista/7. Included are a
> publishing tool, a receiver/broker (dual use), and an XML VOEvent message
> checker. I also made up an online/web based VOEvent message checker. The
> checkers can be used to make sure your VOEvent XML messages conform to the spec.
> The receiver/broker will immediately run any shell script or program on receipt
> of each message, feeding the message via standard-in.
> 
> For more information, downloads, mini-Schema documentation, tools documentation
> and the online message checker, see
> 
>  http://voevent.dc3.com/
> 
> No compilation is needed, but I will supply sources if desired (it will
> eventually be a SourceForge project). The downloads are binaries. The Mac OS X
> kit is a .dmg containing a standard installer. Installation on Linux is manual
> due to the variabilities of the different flavors and local usage. Installation
> on Wndows is also manual since I believe it will be rarely used :-)
> 
> I've just registered for Eventful Universe, and will be there to answer
> questions. I hope this will help build the VOEvent Network into a powerhouse
> system for transient astronomy!
> 
>  -- Bob
> 
> PS: If you have received previous software from me, ignore that and get the
> current version from the above web site.