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At 12:43 PM 8/4/2002 -0400, I wrote:
>I have similar problems created by the lack of any notion of units in W3C
>XML Schema. When I was looking at GPS devices, I found information that
>the accuracy under the forest canopy was off by 7-21. Mentally I read
>that as feet (since I was in the US), but it was of course in
>meters. Since the particular maps I'm making are only 52 feet 8 inches in
>diameter, 23-67 feet off is kind of a problem. I'm also creating software
>which will hopefully be used in both US and metric environments, so an
>understanding of units is crucial.
It's also quite interesting to me that WXS has no understanding of the
units notation used, for instance, in XSL-FO and CSS. It's not that
complicated a notation, but all of its handling is described in CSS and
XSL-FO, not in W3C XML Schema, which doesn't know em from pt.
Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue
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- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
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