Means to specify field lengths in votable.parse()

[pscicluna]

Not all providers of VOTables have updated beyond v1.0, and hence not all tables provide the lengths and types of each field. Is there a way to pass info to parse() to tell it what the fields should look like so it doesn't always assume that they are length-one strings?

[pllim]

I only see schemas for v1.1, v1.2, and v1.3 in the code, so my guess is "no". It might be easier to ask the table providers to update those tables.

If you wish to pursue this further, please provide a small table to demonstrate your problem here.