I agree. Ask any linguist, and they'll tell you: "it looks just like HPSG (head-driven phrase structure grammar)". :)

"Robert A. Morris" ram@CS.UMB.EDU Sent by: TDWG - Structure of Descriptive Data TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU 09/16/2003 08:58 AM Please respond to TDWG - Structure of Descriptive Data

To: TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU cc: Subject: Re: DescriptoinML might be too broad Re: Name for the standard

No XML is descriptive. It's all syntactic. Hah, hah, just serious.

Karen E. Medina wrote:

All xml is descriptive.

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DescriptionML ?

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