As for other table formats, STIL represents a VOTable TABLE element
to the programmer as a StarTable object,
in this case a VOStarTable.
Since the data models used by the StarTable interface
and the VOTable definition of a TABLE
are pretty similar, it's mostly obvious how the one maps onto the other.
However, for those who want a detailed understanding of exactly how to
interpret or control one from the other,
the following subsections go through these mappings in detail.