VOEvent Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments

This document will act as RFC center for the VOEvent V1.1 Proposed Recommendation.
Specification at http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/PR/VOE/VOEvent-20060629.html
XML Schema at http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOEvent/VOEvent-v1.1.xsd

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Comments

• (1) This first comment is a sample comment

• (2) I have a comment about the content of the Description element. I agree that it will sometimes be desirable to use plain text and sometimes to use HTML, but for software which encounters the content the current proposal presents the problem of how to present it - does it assume it's HTML and attempt to format it thus (which will look wrong if it's plain) or assume it's plain text and display it raw (which will look wrong if it's HTML) or attempt to guess by looking which it is (which is hard and error-prone). Can I suggest an additional attribute format on Description which may take (at least) the values plain (the default) and html. I'd suggest that it is not limited to these values so that specialised applications can use other formatting methods if they wish to in the future (on the understanding that not all software may know what to do with exotic formatting methods).