C++ parser for VOTable
This page describes the effort to build a C++ parser for the VOTable XML format as part of the VOI (Virtual Observatory India) project. This project has been undertaken by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Persistent Systems, Pune. Please send comments and questions to <voindia@vo.iucaa.ernet.in>.
Downloads
VOTable Parser Version |
Windows32(Built with MSVC 6.0) |
Linux Redhat 7.1(Built with g++ (2.96) |
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1.2 |
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1.1 |
Change log is available here.
API Documentation is available here.
Salient Implementation Features
- The parser is implemented as a wrapper over XALAN-C++, an XSLT processor and provides for an API based interface to access VOTable files.
- Since XALAN-C++ is a robust implementation of is a robust implementation of the W3C Recommendations for XSL Transformations (XSLT) and the XML Path Language (XPath), XPath queries can be used to access the VOTable data. As a result future enhancements to the parser can be incorporated quickly and efficiently.
Object Model
Current Scope
- Support only for reading of tables
- Support only for pure-XML TABLEDATA and not for BINARY or FITS data streams