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5.2.2 Output Formats

Some of the tools ask you to specify the format of output tables using the ofmt parameter. The following list gives the values usually allowed for this; in some cases as you can see there are several variants of a given format. You can abbreviate these names, and the first match in the list below will be used, so for instance specifying votable is equivalent to specifying votable-tabledata and fits is equivalent to fits-plus. Matching is case-insensitive.

fits-plus
FITS file; primary HDU contains a VOTable representation of the metadata, subsequent extensions contain one or more FITS binary tables (behaves the same as fits-basic for most purposes)
fits-basic
FITS file; primary HDU is data-less, subsequent extensions contain a FITS binary table
colfits-plus
FITS file containing a BINTABLE with a single row; each cell of the row contains a whole column's worth of data. The primary HDU also contains a VOTable representation of the metadata.
colfits-basic
FITS file containing a BINTABLE with a single row; each cell of the row contains a whole column's worth of data. The primary HDU contains nothing.
votable-tabledata
VOTable document with TABLEDATA (pure XML) encoding
votable-binary-inline
VOTable document with BINARY-encoded data inline within a STREAM element. If VOTable 1.3 output is in force (see votable.version system property), votable-binary2-inline is provided instead.
votable-binary-href
VOTable document with BINARY-encoded data in a separate file (only if not writing to a stream). If VOTable 1.3 output is in force (see votable.version system property), votable-binary2-href is provided instead.
votable-fits-href
VOTable document with FITS-encoded data in a separate file (only if not writing to a stream)
votable-fits-inline
VOTable document with FITS-encoded data inline within a STREAM element
ascii
Simple space-separated ASCII file format
text
Human-readable plain text (with headers and column boundaries marked out)
csv
Comma-Separated Value format. The first line is a header which contains the column names.
csv-noheader
Comma-Separated Value format with no header line.
ipac
IPAC Table Format.
tst
Tab-Separated Table format.
html
Standalone HTML document containing a TABLE element
html-element
HTML TABLE element
latex
LaTeX tabular environment
latex-document
LaTeX standalone document containing a tabular environment
mirage
Mirage input format
For more details on these formats, see the descriptions in SUN/253.

In some cases the tools may guess what output format you want by looking at the extension of the output filename you have specified.


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STILTS - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
Starlink User Note256
STILTS web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Mailing list: topcat-user@jiscmail.ac.uk