NAME or ID

[Francois Ochsenbein]

>
>>     But you didn't quote a case (0) -- neither name nor ID exists.
>>     Why should this be stricly forbidden ? It just means that you
>>     cannot refer explicitely to this field or parameter in a query (or
>>     in some other operation ?). Or are there actual cases I'm missing ?
>
>I could not think of a case in which it was useful for a column to exist
>which had neither name nor ID, can you?   (

>I have come across one or two FITS tables with no names on the columns
>(perhaps by mistake) but there one can use a sequential column number -
>and I am not sure the same is true of VOTable?
>
===> Exactly, FITS tables with no names and FIELDs without name/ID
     have the same property: just their sequential column number ...
     It's not useful to have no name, but my feeling is that it's harmless
     provided you don't need to quote it...

francois
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