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Re: Please no UOM (was Re: maps)

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• Subject: Re: Please no UOM (was Re: maps)
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:26:23 +1000
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From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>

> These types of constraints tend to fall into the realm of "business rules", 
> and in no way belong in a data schema language

It has been standard practise from the beginning of markup languages
to accept multiple units of measurement, such as inches, pica, cm.

These are hardly "business rules".

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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