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Re: Re: maps

• To: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...>
• Subject: Re: Re: maps
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:22:36 -0600
• Cc: "Bob Hutchison" <hutch@x...>, "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...> of "Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:36:33 EDT." <050401c23d56$a97ae300$0201a8c0@n...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Bob Hutchison wrote:
> [[
> 
> I'll try again.
> 
> The idiom is 75°15'00" N 43°05'00" W
> 
> The idiom is NOT <lat>75°15'00" N</lat><long>43°05'00" W</long>
> 
> The idiom is NOT <lat>75.25</lat><long>43.08333333333333</long>
> 
> Apparently the former is OK but the later is not.
> 
> Why?
> 
> ]]
> 
> The point of this thread is totally lost on me.
> 
> I'd say that a good way to represent coordinates in XML would be:
> 
> <map.coordinate>
>  <north>
>     <deg>75</deg>
>     <min>15</min>
>     <arc>00</arc>
>  </north>
>  <west>
>     <deg>45</deg>
>     <min>05</min>
>     <arc>00</arc>
>  </west>
> </map.cooordinate>
> 
> (or whatever the names of the elements should be).
> 
> This way to structure the XML is:
> 
> 1) structured
> 2) structured
> 3) easily parsable
> 4) the _numbers_ are represented as values, the _units_ belong to the
> element _type_ i.e. the element name.

This may be better for you.  It's not necessarily better for everyone.

But I'm suspicious.  Let me ask you this:

Do you really always mark up dates as

<date>
  <year>2002</year>
  <month>08</month>
  <day>06</day>
</date>

If you do (which would amaze me) do you think this is the way everyone should 
do it?  What's the problem with 2002-08-06, which doesn't meet your 3 criteria 
above.


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