Millions have already died for the books on this acronym, but I think you are onto something.

If you can understand an organism well enough to describe it well, you are closer to your Generalized Object Description.

-- Bryan At 08:46 PM 9/19/03 +1000, you wrote:

Got it! - we think that SDD will be pretty general, huh? Then Generalised Object Description Markup Language - an acronym to die for, surely.

-k

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