Announce: STIL 1.0 - New table/VOTable handling library -> VOTable writers availables

[Andre Schaaff]

Hello Pierre,

The SAVOT (Simple Access to VOTable) has also a VOTable output from the 
internal data model.
But it is not a converter (it is not its aim), you can do the 2 following 
things :
1) load an existing VOTable file, modify-add-remove what you want, write the 
new VOTable file
2) create a VOTable file from scratch with the methods from the API

It think that the different VOTable existing tools are complementary.
So it depends on your need.

André

En réponse à Pierre Didelon <pdidelon at cea.fr>:

> 
> 
> Mark Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Dear VOTablers,
> > 
> > this message is to announce the first public release (v1.0) of STIL -
> > the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library.
> > 
> > STIL is a pure Java (J2SE1.4) library for I/O and manipulation of
> tables
> > (focussed on, though not necessarily restricted to, astronomical
> data).
> > It is the library which underlies TOPCAT
> (http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/).
> > Although it is format-neutral and can read/write tables in a number
> > of formats (including FITS, SQL, ASCII as well as VOTable), 
> > it has powerful features for VOTable I/O.
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > Mark Taylor
> > 
> 
> Very nice!
> 
> As we plan to use VOTable internally in somes places of our project,
> I would like to know if there are others JAVA VOTable writers
> availables
> for public usage.
> I remember in addition to the one announced above,
> the one developed at VOIndia
> http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/votableStreamWriter.htm.
> Have I missed something?
> 
> Thanks for any information,
> Pierre Didelon
> 
>