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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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