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6.3 Writing VOTables

To write a VOTable using STIL you have to prepare a StarTable object which defines the output table's metadata and data. The uk.ac.starlink.table package provides a rich set of facilities for creating and modifying these, as described in section 5 (see section 5.4.2 for an example of how to turn a set of arrays into a StarTable). In general the FIELD arraysize and datatype attributes are determined from column classes using the same mappings described in section 6.2.

A range of facilities for writing StarTables out as VOTables is offered, allowing control over the data format and the structure of the resulting document.


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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/