can AIML an expert system make?

The way AIML is structured, primarily for dialogue engines, appears (though still untested) to be very amenable for the productio rule structure of an expert system.

The question really is whether AIML would be sufficient to use in making an expert system. How malleable would it be for the synthesis of production rules using primitives available in AIML and its extensions?

Luckily there are some interesting "knowledge" oriented structured datasets such as ontologies and taxonomies lying around that could be used to try to answer these questions by attempting a rudimentary AIML production rule system.