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---+ !Server-side Operations for Data Access version 1.0 Proposed Erratum 2: Wrong VOTable syntax in polarization example

Author: François Bonnarel

Date last changed: 2023-01-20

Date accepted:

---++ Rationale

In section 4.2, the VOTable excerpt given for the POL PARAM is written following a wrong syntax for the OPTION element. The value of this element is coded as a content of the element instead of as a value of the "value" attribute of the element. In addition the closing tag of the VALUES element is wrongly written
<verbatim></VALUE></verbatim>

instead of
<verbatim></VALUES></verbatim>

This bug orignally described on github in  SODA issue  #1 (https://github.com/ivoa-std/SODA/issues/1)

---++ Erratum Content

This Erratum proposes following changes.

---++++ Fix VOTable syntax

In [[http://ivoa.net/documents/SODA/20170517/REC-SODA-1.0.html#tth_sEc4.2][§4.2 "*SODA Service Descriptor from DataLink*"]] of !SODA-1.0, update the Polarization example OPTION tags in

<verbatim><PARAM name="POL" ucd="meta.code;phys.polarization"
datatype="char" arraysize="*" value="">
<DESCRIPTION>Polarization states to be extracted.</DESCRIPTION>
<VALUES>
<OPTION>I</OPTION>
<OPTION>V</OPTION>
</VALUE>
</PARAM></verbatim>

from

<verbatim><OPTION>I</OPTION></verbatim>

to

<verbatim><OPTION value="I"/></verbatim>

from

<verbatim><OPTION>V</OPTION></verbatim>

to

<verbatim><OPTION value="V"/></verbatim>

from

<verbatim></VALUE></verbatim>

to

<verbatim></VALUES></verbatim>

---++ Impact Assessment

Fixing the VOTable syntax in an example will make no harm to any service and will avoid implementers writng  code delivering incorrect VOTables.

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Topic revision: r3 - 2023-01-23 - MarkTaylor

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