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Re: ANN: XML Schema of measurement units

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• Subject: Re: ANN: XML Schema of measurement units
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:02:38 -0400
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[Roger L. Costello]
>
> I have created an XML Schema[1] containing simpleType definitions that
> enumerate the units for:
>
>    - temperature
>    - length
>    - weight
>    - volume
>    - area
>    - cooking
>    - speed
>

Roger, this looks like a really good idea.  Looking at your linked schema, I
wonder if it would make sense to be able to declare certain groups of units
as equivalent (like "ml" and "mL"), and also a way to declare the languages
of those units that may be locale-specific.

What do you think?

Cheers,

Tom P

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