More VOTable 1.2 points

Mark Taylor m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk
Tue Mar 3 09:27:15 PST 2009


On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Mark Taylor wrote:

>   4. The TD element has an "encodingType" attribute.  This seems to be
>      related to the idea proposed in Appendix A.5 "Encoding individual
>      table cells".  That appendix describes an idea which was discussed
>      but never agreed for introduction into the standard.  Nowhere in
>      the body of the document is the meaning of this attribute for a
>      TD mentioned.  I therefore believe it should never have been
>      introduced, and should be removed.

correction - the attribute I'm talking about here is named "encoding"
not "encodingType".  Sorry.

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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