From: Mike Dallwitz md@ENTO.CSIRO.AU To: TDWG-SDD@USOBI.ORG Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:32 PM Subject: Re: TDWG-SDD XML proposals of Kevin Thiele

| There is no mention of character lists in this draft (perhaps it is to come | in later versions). There is currently no way of ensuring that descriptions | are comparative.

The intention (at least from where I sit) is to incorporate (optional) character lists later - again, once idrefs are implemented.

Cheers - k