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VOTable RESOURCE and TABLE number #19

Open molinaro-m opened 4 years ago

molinaro-m commented 4 years ago

ConeSearch currently fixes to 1 RESOURCE with 1 TABLE response. Should this be relaxed?

Zarquan commented 4 years ago

Is there a science case for extending this ?

molinaro-m commented 4 years ago

The reason to relax this is that, while a single "results" table is fine, the wording in the REC-1.03

There must be a single RESOURCE in the VOTable, and that contains a single TABLE.

prevents other RESOURCES even if they were not results one. This blocks the ability to add DataLink service descriptors.

So, it's not to encourage multi-table result sets but to allow RESOURCEs or TABLEs with other goals. A change in the wording describing this would suffice, in my opinion.

molinaro-m commented 10 months ago

Pull request #56, that would be available after #55 refactoring, is supposed to fix this