Expressing 2- and 3-D coordinates

[Matthew Graham]

Hi,

Just to add my tuppence worth here: the bottom line really has to be 
that the XML representation is implementable in a platform-independent 
way. You just have to go with the lowest common denominator: it really 
matters not one jot if

<Value2> 149.60 23.5</Value2>

is the most elegant representation but cannot be parsed properly by a 
sizeable fraction of our systems, you just have to use

<Value2>
  <C1>149.60</C1>
  <C2>23.5</C2>
</Value2>

instead. The moment we start mandating a particular infrastructure to 
support our XML, we sound the death knell from the user community.

       Cheers,

       Matthew