wrote:
> I'd go for:
>
> <River id="Yangtze">
> <length unit="kilometer">6300</length>
> </River>
>
If we grant that kilometer is a property/relation/function between
a distance dimension object and a number, then the choice of
representations would be:
<River id="Yangtze">
<length kilometers="6300"/>
</River>
or alternatively:
<River id="Yangtze">
<length>
<kilometer>6300</kilometer>
</length>
</River>
This is quite a radical approach. I am surprised that there
aren't more comments, since the "conventional wisdom" is
not to treat kilometer as a property/relation/function, but rather
to treat it as the value of a property, e.g.,
<River id="Yangtze">
<length unit="kilometer">6300</length>
</River>
Thoughts? /Roger
