• To: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: maps
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:42:37 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <p04330100b9737b980472@[192.168.254.4]>

> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] 
>
> 
> 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.

Fair enough. I guess adding anything like it in XML 2.0 would be more
cruft.

regards,
Bill de hÓra

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