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RE: [xml-dev] maps

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To: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] maps
From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:42:37 +0100
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> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] 
>
> 
> Not really. Units are a property of numeric data. Language is a 
> property of text data. XML was designed for text. The use of XML to 
> encode various kinds of numeric data was mostly a fluke.

Fair enough. I guess adding anything like it in XML 2.0 would be more
cruft.

regards,
Bill de hÓra

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