\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1}Introduction}{3}{section.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1}Why VOTable?}{3}{subsection.1.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.2}XML Conventions}{4}{subsection.1.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.3}Syntax policy}{4}{subsection.1.3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2}Data Model}{4}{section.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1}Primitives}{5}{subsection.2.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2}Multidimensional Arrays}{5}{subsection.2.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3}Compatibility with FITS Binary Tables}{6}{subsection.2.3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3}The VOTable Document Structure}{6}{section.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.1}Example}{7}{subsection.3.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2}ID and name attributes}{7}{subsection.3.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.3}DEFINITIONS element}{8}{subsection.3.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4}RESOURCE element}{8}{subsection.3.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5}LINK element}{8}{subsection.3.5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.6}TABLE element}{9}{subsection.3.6}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4}FIELDs and PARAMeters}{9}{section.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1}FIELD attributes}{9}{subsection.4.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2}Numerical Accuracy}{10}{subsection.4.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3}Units}{10}{subsection.4.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4}Unified Content Descriptors}{10}{subsection.4.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.5}The {\tt {\color {DarkRed}utype}} attribute}{11}{subsection.4.5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.6}VALUES element}{11}{subsection.4.6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.7}GROUPing FIELDs and PARAMeters}{11}{subsection.4.7}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5}Data Content}{12}{section.5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.1}TABLEDATA Serialization}{12}{subsection.5.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.2}FITS Serialization}{13}{subsection.5.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.3}BINARY Serialization}{14}{subsection.5.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.4}Data Encoding}{15}{subsection.5.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.5}Remote Data}{15}{subsection.5.5}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {6}Definitions of Primitive Datatypes}{16}{section.6}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7}A simplified view of the VOTable 1.1 Schema}{17}{section.7}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8}Differences between versions 1.0 and 1.1}{19}{section.8}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {9}References}{19}{section.9}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {A}Possible VOTable extensions}{20}{section.A}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {A.1}VOTable LINK substitutions}{20}{subsection.A.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {A.2}VOTable Query Extension}{20}{subsection.A.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {A.3}Arrays of variable-length strings}{21}{subsection.A.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {A.4}FIELDs as data pointers}{21}{subsection.A.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {A.5}Encoding individual table cells}{22}{subsection.A.5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {A.6}Additional {\tt {\color {DarkRed}TABLE}} attributes}{23}{subsection.A.6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {A.7}A new {\tt {\color {DarkRed}XMLDATA}} serialization}{23}{subsection.A.7}