> ...but Roy's suggestion of having a tool to transform VOTables into
> "hardXML" would indeed be interesting for applications making usage of
> generic XML tools -- I imagine that the overhead of such conversions
> would not be important for "small" tables (and could be driven by XSLT
> scripts)
Yes, thinking about it a bit more, I'm more and more convinced that this is a good idea. We keep and extend what we have, while creating tools (and associated schemas) to translate it to (and from?) a "proper" XML document which (while very verbose) could be handled by generic XML tools.
Al.
-- Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of ExeterReceived on 2004-01-20Z01:01:56