How is XML extensible?
XML is designed to be extensible in several ways. We envisage at least four such mechanisms. (a) Allowing communities to develop their own tagset (e.g. MathML, CML). A community can decide to use an established ontology and represent it in XML or to create a new one. In the area of biological sequences there are currently two proposals for managing sequence data (BSML, BioML) it will be important to ensure that they have ontological interoperability with e.g. the CORBA-based systems of many of the (inter)national data providers.
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