Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?

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Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) <>
To
"Roger L. Costello" <>, XML Dev <>
Date
2003-07-17T11:13:58Z
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Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
I guess it depends on your implementation requirements.


> 1. Is kilometer a class?  Is 6300 an instance of the kilometer class?
>      kilometer class: {..., 6300, ...}

I like this one...


> 4. Is kilometer a label?  If so, then what's a label?

and this one, where "kilometer" is type metadata about the numerical value.



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