I’m currently writing a loader for the Collada format for Xith (and one more for some other tool).
For more info on Collada and .DAE, go to http://www.collada.org
Wow, both Alias and Discreet are collaborating on it. Sounds good.
Will.
it seems to make very fat files when it exports animation
cool that its all in XML mind 
i like that.