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> Bob Hutchison wrote:
> [[
>
> 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?
>
> ]]
>
> 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.
This may be better for you. It's not necessarily better for everyone.
But I'm suspicious. Let me ask you this:
Do you really always mark up dates as
<date>
<year>2002</year>
<month>08</month>
<day>06</day>
</date>
If you do (which would amaze me) do you think this is the way everyone should
do it? What's the problem with 2002-08-06, which doesn't meet your 3 criteria
above.
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