7.4 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 6 (see Section 6.4.2 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 7.1.4.

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.

• 7.4.1 Generic table output
• 7.4.2 Single VOTable output
• 7.4.3 TABLE element output
• 7.4.4 VOTable Version