Hi,
I recently came upon an article on STMML
<http://www.xml-cml.org/stmml/>
a discussion of a general xml dialect for science, technology, math, and
medicine. It doesn't attempt to be all things to all disciplines, but is
more an attempt to provide an integrating framework. Perhaps some of the
Earth science efforts with ESML, NCML, GML, and even perhaps ARCXML might
find a place. In any case, if you haven't already heard about it, it's an
interesting way to think about our variety of MLs.
-- Ben
