At 7:24 PM +0100 8/4/02, Bill de hÓra wrote:
>But seriously if we can support ISO language types in XML, why not SI,
>or even just the SI base units? What all this fuss currently with
>xml:lang, it's odd we don't have an xml:unit.
>
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.
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