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[Frederic V. Hessman]

Exactly: that's why

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<VOEvent id="ivo://powerofpyramids/topics/2012annoucement"  
role="actual" version="0.90"
   xmlns:ivoat="http://www.ivoa.net/vocabularies/IVOAT/..."
   xmlns:stc="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/STC/stc-v1.22.xsd"
   xmlns:crd="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/STC/STCcoords/v1.22"
   xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/STC/stc-v1.22.xsd stc- 
v1.22.xsd">
   <Curation>
     <PublisherID>ivo://powerofpyramids.org</PublisherID>
     <Date>2005-04-15T14:34:16</Date>
   </Curation>
   <What>
     <Param name="the-end-of-everything" ucd="time" utype="ivoat:year"  
value="2012" />
  </What>
</VOEvent>
is a bare-bones astronomical VOEvent of interest to somebody.  One  
could argue about which form of WhenWhere one should have used.

Rick

On 14 Jan 2010, at 18:07, Alasdair Allan wrote:

>
> Roy Williams wrote:
>> For example, each VOEvent has a position in the sky, and tools are  
>> there to correlate, display, and reason about that position.  
>> Setting the position to 999,999 or some other rubbish would confuse  
>> the users of such tools and make think VOEvent is wrong.
>
> Just to pick up on that, the <WhereWhen /> block is entirely  
> optional, a VOEvent doesn't necessarily have to have a position in  
> the sky.
>
> Al.