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3.5.2 VOTable

The VOTable handler, VOTableWriter, can write VOTables in a variety of flavours (see section 6.1). In all cases, a StarTableOutput will write a well-formed VOTable document with a single RESOURCE element holding a single TABLE element. The different output formats (TABLEDATA/FITS/BINARY, inline/href) are determined by configuration options on the handler instance. The default handler writes to inline TABLEDATA format.

The href-type formats write a (short) XML file and a FITS or binary file with a similar name into the same directory, holding the metadata and bulk data respectively. The reference from the one to the other is a relative URL, so if one is moved, they both should be.

For more control over writing VOTables, consult section 6.3.


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STIL - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library
Starlink User Note 252
STIL web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Starlink: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/