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.


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/html/infopage.html

Source code can be made available on request.


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.

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.


