Re: Expression of continuing interest

At 06:58 PM 18/7/00 -0500, Bryan Heidorn wrote:

I do not see how we can avoid mixing data in a treatment. I'll need to go back and reread Bob's comments on that. Generally I don't see how we can have a standard that requires all fields to be reduced to finite states. Some things will just need to be unprocessed (by the computer) text.

You mean like the "Text" character type of DELTA?, or unparsed textual notes attached to characters/states/taxa/data items?

Cheers - k