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Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>, XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
• From: "Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <mbatsis@n...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:13:58 +0300
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I guess it depends on your implementation requirements.


> 1. Is kilometer a class?  Is 6300 an instance of the kilometer class?
>      kilometer class: {..., 6300, ...}

I like this one...


> 4. Is kilometer a label?  If so, then what's a label?

and this one, where "kilometer" is type metadata about the numerical value.



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