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Explicit vocabulary lists and paragraph indentation. #50

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38 changes: 29 additions & 9 deletions VOTable.tex
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\evensidemargin=-0.8cm
\textwidth=17.5cm
\textheight=23.5cm
\parindent=0pt
\arrayrulewidth=0.75pt\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2}
\definecolor{DarkRed}{rgb}{0.5,0,0}
\definecolor{DarkBlue}{rgb}{0,0,0.5}
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\begin{abstract}
This document describes the structures making up
the VOTable standard.

The main part of this document describes the adopted part of the
VOTable standard; it is followed by appendices presenting extensions
which have been proposed and/or discussed, but which are not part of
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\end{figure}

VOTable is a core IVOA standard.
\Fref{fig:archdiag} shows the role this document plays within the IVOA architecture.

Wherever tabular data is transferred between Virtual Observatory components,
VOTable provides the preferred serialization format.
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\item[\attr{refposition}] The reference position for which the positions
are given. The values of this attribute should be taken from the IVOA
\emph{refposition} vocabulary (\url{http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refposition}).
At the time or writing, this vocabulary includes the terms
At the time of writing, this vocabulary includes the terms
% GENERATED: !vocterms refposition
\textsl{BARYCENTER},
\textsl{EMBARYCENTER},
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the ET timescale \citep{2015A+A...574A..36R}.

\item[\attr{timescale}] This is the time scale used. Values SHOULD be
taken from the IVOA \emph{timescale}
vocabulary
(\url{http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/timescale}).
taken from the IVOA \emph{timescale} vocabulary (\url{http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/timescale}).
At the time of writing, this vocabulary includes the terms:
% GENERATED: !vocterms timescale
\textsl{GPS},
\textsl{TAI},
\textsl{TCB},
\textsl{TCG},
\textsl{TDB},
\textsl{TT},
\textsl{UNKNOWN},
\textsl{UT},
\textsl{UTC}
% /GENERATED

This attribute is mandatory.
\item[\attr{refposition}] The reference position again is a simple string.
As with the COOSYS attribute of this name, the values SHOULD be
taken from the IVOA \emph{refposition} vocabulary
(\url{http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refposition}).
(\url{http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/refposition}) which at the time of writing
includes the terms
% GENERATED: !vocterms refposition
\textsl{BARYCENTER},
\textsl{EMBARYCENTER},
\textsl{GEOCENTER},
\textsl{HELIOCENTER},
\textsl{TOPOCENTER},
\textsl{UNKNOWN}
% /GENERATED.

This attribute is mandatory.
\end{description}

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both the single value of \emph{flux} and all items in the \emph{fluxes}
array are declared as being between 0 and $10^{-4}$, and clients could,
for instance, raise warnings if they are not. In the last example,
\emph{CIRCLE}, clients not familiar with \attrval{xtype }{circle} would
\emph{CIRCLE}, clients not familiar with \attrval{xtype}{circle} would
ignore the MAX declaration. Clients familiar with this xtype's
particular interpretation of MAX would learn about a spatial coverage of
a spherical circle with radius two degrees around the point
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element, their definition can be generated automatically from the set of
\elem{FIELD} definitions.

\section{The VOTable V1.4 XML Schema}
\section{The VOTable V1.5 XML Schema}
\label{XML-schema}
The XML Schema of VOTable 1.4 is included here as a reference.
This schema includes a couple of extra optional attributes which are not
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