Excerpts from Yap Chun Wei's message of Wed Oct 07 10:03:28 +0200 2009:
> I have just joined a few days ago so pardon me if I am saying something that
> has been discussed before. Would it be better to adopt the standards used in
> PMML for representing datasets? For example, if you look at the specifications
> for the SupportVectorMachineModel, we can use the same idea of how it stores
> the support vectors using VectorDictionary to store a dataset. Just have to
> couple it with the DataDictionary so that information about the features are
> available.

Yes we have discussed that before - PMML is not (yet) generic enough to
cover all of our models. One possible option was to create PMML
extensions, but as far as I can see it, we did not come to a defintive
conclusion yet.

Best regards,
Christoph