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Bob Hutchison wrote:
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I'll try again.
The idiom is 75°15'00" N 43°05'00" W
The idiom is NOT <lat>75°15'00" N</lat><long>43°05'00" W</long>
The idiom is NOT <lat>75.25</lat><long>43.08333333333333</long>
Apparently the former is OK but the later is not.
Why?
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The point of this thread is totally lost on me.
I'd say that a good way to represent coordinates in XML would be:
<map.coordinate>
<north>
<deg>75</deg>
<min>15</min>
<arc>00</arc>
</north>
<west>
<deg>45</deg>
<min>05</min>
<arc>00</arc>
</west>
</map.cooordinate>
(or whatever the names of the elements should be).
This way to structure the XML is:
1) structured
2) structured
3) easily parsable
4) the _numbers_ are represented as values, the _units_ belong to the
element _type_ i.e. the element name.
But I'm sort of missing what the big debate is about here, I think...
Jonathan
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