Rob,
I need to find some time to review your wonderfully rich suggestions
in depth, but I had a rationale for adding a "dimensions" attribute:
without it, a parser will have to count the number of elements
to determine how many dimensions are required. Plus, it serves as a
check to make
Bruce,
I'm with Rob. Any (good) XML parser automatically counts the number of
subelements of a particular type and returns that number when requested
(e.g. getLength() in Xerces-C used by Janus) or allows you to iterate
through the list without (e.g. "for i in vars:" in various XML modules
in Pyt
