true XML

[Mark Taylor]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Ed Shaya wrote:

> Clive,
>     It is pretty straightforward to use FITSIO or JFITSIO plus one of 
> the VOTable  parsers to set up  back and forth  between FITS  and 
> VOTable.   As usual, I know  this because  we did  this for  FITS/XDF  4 
> years ago.  If you wish you can look at our code for guidance on how 
> this is done.   It is at
> 
> > http://xml.gsfc.nasa.gov/SoftwareDownload.html
> 
>  
> and Select on FITML Java package.
> 
> If there is support from the executive committee our group here could 
> slap together a FITS to VOTable   and back again  in 3-4 weeks.

I already have one of these; tablecopy is a tool which will convert
any-to-any between supported formats:

   http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/index.html#tablecopy

Mark

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