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Re: Re: maps

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Re: maps
• From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@x...>
• Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 09:46:25 -0400
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On 8/6/02 8:45 AM, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> wrote:

> At 12:42 AM 8/6/2002 -0400, Bob Hutchison wrote:
>> I could have sworn that the idiom is actually more like:
>>   75°15'00" N 43°05'00" W
>> 
>> And I've seen:
>>   75 15 00N 43 05 00W
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure the idiom is *not*:
>>   <lat>75°15'00" N</lat><long>43°05'00" W</long>
>> 
>> So. I don't think your's is an acceptable answer.
> 
> Okay, that's one way to look at it.  I don't think processing any of the
> idioms you present is that difficult a problem, nor are they nearly as
> jarring as converting the whole thing to a number or two.

I agree that processing is difficult (I don't know that that is a reason to
do it though). I'm not a person who typically uses co-ordinates, so I'm
hesitant to say that one thing is more or less jarring than another given
that a change in notation is happening. For all I know giving up the actual
idiom might be sufficient to allow a complete re-thinking of how something
something should be re-written.

> 
>> Where *does* the idiom stop and markup begin, anyway? Is an invoice an
>> idiom? Is an integer an idiom? (1,000.00; 1.000,00; 1 000,00; etc) Dates?
>> Durations? Personal names? Addresses? Phone numbers?
> 
> It's all local.  The problems come when particular idioms are blessed by
> specifications, while others are left to twist in the wind.

This I think I agree with completely (however, personally, I'd tend to start
by not blessing any of them).

> 
> Simon St.Laurent
> "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue
> 
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