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• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 20:49:09 -0400
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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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