V10 schema - We need VODescription

[Paul Harrison]

Hi

I wanted to make this point in more detail in the interop session where 
we nearly lost the will to live...

We need VODescription (as a container for multiple resources) in the 
core schema document - it appears to be missing from the v10 schema in 
an attempt to satisfy the need to decrease the hierarchy depth, but it 
is necessary to have some sort of element that allows us to create a 
*valid* xml document that contains more than one resource, as xml 
documents can only have one root element. Having a VODescription element 
and Resource element defined globally means that you can create a valid 
document with a single Resource as the root (which satisfles the 
flatteners) or a VODescription as the root when you want to create a 
document that contains a set of resources...

Cheers,
    Paul.

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