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### 7.3 Reading VOTables

STIL offers a number of options for reading a VOTable document, described in the following sections. If you just want to read one table or all of the tables stored in a VOTable document, obtaining the result as one or more StarTable, the most convenient way is to use the VOTable handler's versions of the STIL generic table reading methods, as described in Section 7.3.1. If you need access to the structure of the VOTable document however, you can use the DOM or SAX-like facilites described in the sections Section 7.3.2 and Section 7.3.3 below.

- 7.3.1 Generic VOTable Read
- 7.3.2 Table-Aware DOM Processing
- 7.3.3 Table-Aware SAX Processing
- 7.3.4 Standards Conformance

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STIL - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library
Starlink User Note252
STIL web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk