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> At 03:51 PM 8/4/2002 -0400, Liam Quin wrote: > >The XML way to do this, I claim, is > ><zoo> > > <name>Utica Zoo</name> > > <lat> > > <deg>75</deg> > > <min>15</min> > > </lat> > > <long> > > <deg>43</deg> > > <min>05</min> > > </long> > ></zoo> > > > >Now you can represent both lat and long in W3C XML Schema. So let me ask Liam this: if this is such a hunky dory approach, why was date not defined as <date> <year>2002</year> <month>08</month> <day>04</day> </date> Why did we need gDate and co? The dead simple answer is that if <lat>75°15'00" N</lat> is what I want in my data, then <lat> <deg>75</deg> <min>15</min> </lat> is a contrivance and a distortion, and a schema language that requires me to resort to this before I can take advantage of the most effective processing tools is blinkered. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Track chair, XML/Web Services One Boston: http://www.xmlconference.com/ Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think12.html Keeping pace with James Clark - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra ry/x-jclark.html Python and XML development using 4Suite, Part 3: 4RDF - http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/8A 1EA5A2CF4621C386256BBB006F4CEC
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