[ecoinfo] Newbie question

[Matt Jones]

Chris,

I hadn't seen much on this EPA effort before, so thanks for pointing it 
out.  The EPA effort was not actively considered while developing EML. 
Nevertheless, from my very quick perusal of their framework I gathered 
that they will be using XML formatted data to be exchanged among nodes, 
and that the 'templates' for their data are in fact DTD and XML Schema 
documents.  Thus, it seems at least tenable that they might be 
interested in or willing to accomodate EML documented data as one of 
their formats if there were compelling reasons to do so.

Are you involved with that effort?  Why did you ask the question?  Is 
there a specific relationship you were trying to discover between the two?

Matt

Chris G. Nicholas wrote:
> How does, or doesn't, EML relate to EPA's "National Environmental
> Information Exchange Network", as per:
> http://www.epa.gov/neengprg/library/netiplan0202.pdf
> 
> Chris Nicholas
> GlobeXplorer
> 
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