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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