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Re: maps

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• Subject: Re: maps
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 13:12:15 -0400
• In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20020804122008.02349610@p...>

At 12:43 PM 8/4/2002 -0400, I wrote:
>I have similar problems created by the lack of any notion of units in W3C 
>XML Schema.  When I was looking at GPS devices, I found information that 
>the accuracy under the forest canopy was off by 7-21.  Mentally I read 
>that as feet (since I was in the US), but it was of course in 
>meters.  Since the particular maps I'm making are only 52 feet 8 inches in 
>diameter, 23-67 feet off is kind of a problem.  I'm also creating software 
>which will hopefully be used in both US and metric environments, so an 
>understanding of units is crucial.

It's also quite interesting to me that WXS has no understanding of the 
units notation used, for instance, in XSL-FO and CSS.  It's not that 
complicated a notation, but all of its handling is described in CSS and 
XSL-FO, not in W3C XML Schema, which doesn't know em from pt.

Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue

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