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VOTable 1.4 Working Draft Notes

Active Proposed Changes

This is the list of proposed changes still under discussion for VOTable 1.4. The "Default Disposition" is what we will do with the proposal if there is no more discussion.

Title Source Default Disposition Disp. Date
DataLink recommends using a "content" parameter. Consider mentioning it in sec. 8 (MIME types) to avoid other standards reinventing the same thing with a different name. email Defer to 1.5. There are no responses yet. If consensus is reached that this is a simple change, then it could be in 1.4. 2019-02-21
Require "ref" for uses of TIMESYS email Accept; include in next draft 2019-02-21
Add optional "origin" or "refposition" attribute to COOSYS email Defer to 1.5. This change has support, but the details are not yet resolved, so may delay 1.4. 2019-02-21
Remove mention of UType in section 1.4, as it is lacking a standard. email Defer to 1.5 2019-02-21
Sec. 4.6: Remove paragraph "In order to avoid name collisions..." email Defer to 1.5 2019-02-21

Proposals for VOTable 1.5

Work will begin on VOTable 1.5 immediately after 1.4 goes to Recommendation.

Title Source
Port the VOTable source to ivoatex. email
   

Change Logs

Between VOTable/20190131 and VOTable/20190218

Description Revision(s)

Section 3.5: reword the sentence:

The TIMESYS element defines such a time system and gives itself the identifies itself with ID="time frame".

to

In the example, the TIMESYS element describes that time system. The TIMESYS ID value just needs to be unique within the document so that it can be referenced by FIELDs or PARAMs.

 		5316
In the section 3.5 TIMESYS example, remove the ID values from the FIELDs since they are not used. 5317

Section 3 reworked to clarify namespace and schema versioning.

5319, 5315
Replace the claimed REC status of the document with the appropriate Working Draft disclaimer from the DocStd appendix. 5318
In sections 4.3 and 4.4, add references to DALI and VOUnits respectively since those standards came about since the writing of VOTable 1.3. Also mention those resources in section 1.4. 5320


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