[AstroPy] Leading/trailing space in PARAM value in vo.table

[Michael Droettboom]

I don't think the spec specifically addresses this, but I'm inclined to 
see this as a bug in vo.table.

A better fix is to put a strip in the PARAM value setter, as text 
stripping is already done in XML text elements and it's redundant to put 
it at the lower level in converters.py.

I've committed a fix for this in SVN r2738.

Mike

On 05/09/2012 01:31 PM, Rodney Barnett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've encountered another problem though I don't see it explicitly
> addressed in the VOTable specs.  Maybe someone can tell me whether the
> problem is in the data files I'm working with or the vo.table package.
>
> My data files have tags like this:
> <PARAM name="XYZ" datatype="double" arraysize="2" ucd="pos;obs.param"
> value="    734.90     -23.799" unit="pix"/>
>
> vo.table interprets the array as having three entries and complains
> since the stated size is two.
>
> I made a change in converters.py to strip the value before splitting it
> and the problem was resolved.  However, I'm uncertain whether the value
> should be interpreted as having some sort of empty value as the first
> element instead.
>
> Rodney
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