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NAME

       stilts-regquery - Queries the VO registry

SYNOPSIS

       stilts regquery [query=<value>] [regurl=<url-value>] [soapout=<out-file>] [ocmd=<cmds>]
                       [omode=out|meta|stats|count|checksum|cgi|discard|topcat|samp|tosql|gui]
                       [out=<out-table>] [ofmt=<out-format>]

DESCRIPTION

       regquery  submits  a query to the Virtual Observatory registry and returns the result as a
       table containing all the records which match the condition specified. The resulting  table
       can  be  written  out  in any of the supported formats or otherwise processed in the usual
       ways. Making use of this command requires an understanding of the VOResource schema.

       It is important to note that the results of this command give a very  much  flattened  and
       incomplete  view  of the results of a full registry query. That is because the contents of
       an IVOA Registry (see the IVOA Resource Metadata and VOResource documents for more detail)
       are hierarchical and cannot be faithfully represented in a simple tabular structure. Other
       superior registry search clients exist; this  command  is  just  useful  for  viewing  the
       results in a rather simplified way which can be represented as a table.

OPTIONS

       query=<value>
              Text  of  an ADQL WHERE clause targeted at the VOResource 1.0 schema defining which
              resource records you wish to retrieve from the registry. Some examples are:

                * @xsi:type like '%Organisation%'

                * capability/@standardID  =  'ivo://ivoa.net/std/ConeSearch'   and   title   like
                  '%SDSS%'

                * curation/publisher like 'CDS%' and title like '%galax%'

              A  full  description of ADQL syntax and of the VOResource schema is well beyond the
              scope of this documentation, but in general  you  want  to  use  <field-name>  like
              '<value>'  where  '%'  is  a  wildcard  character. Logical operators and and or and
              parentheses can be used to group and combine expressions. To work out  the  various
              <field-name>s you need to look at the VOResource 1.0 schema.

       regurl=<url-value>
              The  URL  of  a SOAP endpoint which provides a VOResource1.0 IVOA registry service.
              Some known suitable registry endpoints at time of writing are

                * http://registry.astrogrid.org/astrogrid-registry/services/RegistryQueryv1_0

                * http://registry.euro-vo.org/services/RegistrySearch

                * http://vao.stsci.edu/directory/ristandardservice.asmx

       soapout=<out-file>
              If set to a non-null value, this gives the destination for the text of the  request
              and response SOAP messages. The special value "-" indicates standard output.

       ocmd=<cmds>
              Specifies  processing  to  be  performed  on  the  output  table,  after  all other
              processing has taken place. The value of this parameter  is  one  or  more  of  the
              filter  commands  described  in  SUN/256.  If  more than one is given, they must be
              separated by semicolon characters (";"). This parameter can  be  repeated  multiple
              times on the same command line to build up a list of processing steps. The sequence
              of commands given in this way defines the processing pipeline which is performed on
              the table.

              Commands may alteratively be supplied in an external file, by using the indirection
              character '@'. Thus a value of "@filename" causes the file filename to be read  for
              a  list of filter commands to execute. The commands in the file may be separated by
              newline characters and/or semicolons, and lines which are blank or which start with
              a '#' character are ignored.

       omode=out|meta|stats|count|checksum|cgi|discard|topcat|samp|tosql|gui
              The  mode  in which the result table will be output. The default mode is out, which
              means that the result will be written as a new  table  to  disk  or  elsewhere,  as
              determined  by the out and ofmt parameters. However, there are other possibilities,
              which correspond to uses to which a table can be put other than outputting it, such
              as  displaying  metadata,  calculating  statistics, or populating a table in an SQL
              database. For some values of this parameter,  additional  parameters  (<mode-args>)
              are required to determine the exact behaviour.

              Possible values are

                * out

                * meta

                * stats

                * count

                * checksum

                * cgi

                * discard

                * topcat

                * samp

                * tosql

                * gui
               Use the help=omode flag or see SUN/256 for more information.

       out=<out-table>
              The  location of the output table. This is usually a filename to write to. If it is
              equal to the special value "-" (the default) the output table will  be  written  to
              standard output.

              This parameter must only be given if omode has its default value of "out".

       ofmt=<out-format>
              Specifies  the format in which the output table will be written (one of the ones in
              SUN/256 - matching is case-insensitive and you can use just the first few letters).
              If  it  has the special value "(auto)" (the default), then the output filename will
              be examined to try to guess what sort of file is required usually by looking at the
              extension. If it's not obvious from the filename what output format is intended, an
              error will result.

              This parameter must only be given if omode has its default value of "out".

SEE ALSO

       stilts(1)

       If the package stilts-doc is installed, the full documentation  SUN/256  is  available  in
       HTML format:
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/sun256/index.html

VERSION

       STILTS version 3.4.3-debian

       This  is  the  Debian  version  of Stilts, which lack the support of some file formats and
       network protocols. For differences see
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/README.Debian

AUTHOR

       Mark Taylor (Bristol University)

                                             Mar 2017                          STILTS-REGQUERY(1)