Mark,
Thanks - that's probably saved us a good number of being-hours! I am
anxiously awaiting developments on the off-shoot "Quantity tables" thread
of Linde/Shaya. The area of overlap between VOTable and data models is a
bit of a concern to me - it's all a bit vague. I'm with you in the
aversion to the notion that off-the-shelf XML tools will "do it all". At
some point somebody is going to have to write some real source code.
Having achieved a certain level of agreement in the Thomas/McDowell/Berry
debate on Quantity, Brian now wants to go on immediately to decide on
serialisations. It seems to me that many people (such as you and Al) are
expecting that the data model should be expressable as a VOtable of some
flavour. Seems reasonable. However, Brian's initial suggestions which he
sent out today seem to completely ignore VOTable. The problem is that I do
not think any of us working on Quantity at the moment are particularly
knowledgable on VOTable (I certainly am not), not XML in general -
although Brian seems to have more XML experience than the rest of us.
David
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