Release Notes
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Release Identification:
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This contains the first release (version 1.1) of the VOTable
Parser in C++. It contains C++ API to read VOTable documents.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. 
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE RIGHTHOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR 
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, 
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Product Support Information/Feedback address:
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For feedback contact voindia@vo.iucaa.ernet.in.

Release Availability:
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The binary release is available on 
http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/infopage.html

Installation Method and Information:
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Installation method and information is provided in the README.txt.

System Requirements:
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        - Platforms
	  Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000
	  Linux Redhat 7.1         

        - Other Prerequisites
          Xalan-C++ version 1.3 must be installed.
	  Xerces-C++ version 1.6.0 must be installed.

In this release:
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	- Limitations
	  * Support for Unicode not provided.
          * Error Handling not supported.
          * No Support for reading 'null' values from votable data.
       
        - Known Problems
	  * The VOTable DTD should be kept locally and the VOTable XML 
            should have a reference to the local DTD instead of referring
            to any site on internet.
          * The VOTable Namespace schema definition should be kept locally
            and VOTable should refer to the local file.
	  * The Linux version does not work with the DTD. Please remove the 
            doctype definition and external references to DTD or namespaces
	    from the VOTable XML file.

    

Package Information (components/files etc):
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The release when unzipped contains
(1) 'bin' directory containing the VOTableParser1_1.lib
(2) 'include' directory containing the header files.
(3) 'samples' containing a sample program accessing the API and a sample VOTABLE.xml.
(4) 'apidocs' containing the documentation for the API.


