VOTable C++ Parser: any alternatives?

[Marco C. Leoni]

Hi Alberto,

it may be useful to have a look at this page:
http://ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOTableSoftware
there's a list of VOTable-related tools.

Also to the VOTable page on the IVOA twiki:
http://ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOTable



Cheers,
   Marco




Quoting Alberto Pepe <a.pepe at cineca.it>:

> Hello,
> 
> I am developing a C++ application capable of reading VOTables and am 
> having some problems fiinding suitable C++ libraries that allow parsing 
> of VOTables. I have had several attempts at installing/compiling both 
> the binaries and sources of the 'non-streaming' VOTableParser provided 
> by VO-India (http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/cplusparser_nostream.htm) 
> without any luck. In particular, I can manage to get the software 
> running, but it crashes on any attempt to parse any VOTable - it doesn't 
> even parse the provided sample VOTable XML file... I have tried 
> different things, i.e. to feed the parser with alternative VOTables and 
> XPaths or to manually modify and compile the provided classes, but it 
> always seems to crash upon opening a VOTable.
> 
> Now, I was wondering if anyone currently uses this parser and if there 
> is any other C++ parser out there. I have realised that Java is the way 
> to go when dealing with VOTables, however our software (and its 
> underlying framework) is entirely written in C++... so... I guess it all 
> makes sense.
> 
> Finally I would like to point out that the mirror to the 'streaming' 
> version of the parser 
> (http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/cplusparser_stream.htm) seems to be down.
> 
> Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alberto Pepe
> CINECA - InterUniversity Consortium - Italy
>