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Re: Re: maps

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• Subject: Re: Re: maps
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 08:27:05 -0400
• References: <4.2.0.58.20020805080219.02331a70@p...>

[Simon St.Laurent]

[[
At 09:34 PM 8/4/2002 -0700, Micah Dubinko wrote:
>An unpopular (but possible with current technology) answer is that the °
and
>' and " and even N|S|E|W stuff is window dressing, and that the actual
value
>is just a number:
>
><zoo>
>   <name>Utica Zoo</name>
>   <lat>75.25</lat>
>   <long>43.08333333333333</long>
></zoo>

No, that's not an acceptable answer.  Part of the reason for using XML at
all is the possibility and even probability that humans will be playing
with these files directly and/or writing software, and preserving the
idioms they use is critical.
]]

The  svg model for capturing style declarations seems to work well - they
are  attribute values, and any parsing of the style is done separate from
xml processing.  And they can use different units.

Cheers,

Tom P

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