4.2.3 VOTable

When a table is saved to VOTable format, a document conforming to the VOTable 1.0 specification containing a single TABLE element within a single RESOURCE element is written.

There are a number of variants which determine the form in which the table data (DATA element) is written:

votable-tabledata
TABLEDATA element (pure XML)
votable-binary-inline
BINARY element containing base64-encoded data within the document
votable-fits-href
FITS element containing a reference to an external newly-written FITS file (with a name derived from that of the VOTable document)
votable-binary-href
BINARY element containing a reference to an external newly-written binary file (with a name derived from that of the VOTable document)
votable-fits-inline
FITS element containing base64-encoded data within the document
See the VOTable specification for more explanation of what these variants mean. They can all be read by the VOTable input handler.