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Fix unit section for consistency with VOUnits #28

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mbtaylor opened this issue Jul 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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Fix unit section for consistency with VOUnits #28

mbtaylor opened this issue Jul 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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mbtaylor commented Jul 9, 2021

Section 4.4 of VOTable 1.4 references VOUnits as the recommended syntax for the unit attribute, but the summary in the text ("no special symbol is required for a power") and some of the examples ("m2" and "cm-2.s-1.keV-1") are incorrect with respect to the VOUnits standard, which uses "**" for raising to a power. The examples and text, which were presumably left over from pre-VOUnit days, should be updated.

It's also not clear from the text whether VOUnits are REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED; it says

The syntax of the unit string is defined in reference [3]

but also

Reference [3] contains the recommended rules for writing string representations of the unit strings, called VOUnits.

This should be clarified.

@tomdonaldson tomdonaldson added this to the v1.5 milestone Feb 17, 2023
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This was fixed by PR #51.

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