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[Simon St.Laurent]
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At 09:34 PM 8/4/2002 -0700, Micah Dubinko wrote:
>An unpopular (but possible with current technology) answer is that the °
and
>' and " and even N|S|E|W stuff is window dressing, and that the actual
value
>is just a number:
>
><zoo>
> <name>Utica Zoo</name>
> <lat>75.25</lat>
> <long>43.08333333333333</long>
></zoo>
No, that's not an acceptable answer. Part of the reason for using XML at
all is the possibility and even probability that humans will be playing
with these files directly and/or writing software, and preserving the
idioms they use is critical.
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The svg model for capturing style declarations seems to work well - they
are attribute values, and any parsing of the style is done separate from
xml processing. And they can use different units.
Cheers,
Tom P
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