What is CMLs current ontology?
The current version of CML has been created to support a wide number of concepts in chemistry. In this article we address the simpler aspects of the ontology and leave more complex issues to a later publication. In some cases this is so we can gather feedback about the us of the current draft, in others it is to await forthcoming constructs of XML such as XLINK and XML Schemas, and for others it is because there is little shared ontology within the chemical community. The following are some of the topics we reserve for a future draft.
