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Alaric B. Snell wrote: > The thrust of the ASN.1 types is really based on mathematical concepts such > as 'integer', though. Those are pretty damn universal and have reached broad > acceptance from particle physics up to the structure of the human brain :-) Al, The nearest things to universals I know of in the sciences are PSI units of measurement (I think I've said this before here). I'm not aware of a standard markup for them :( See David Megginson's post for what might actually be useful to the aircraft industry - I observe it's closer to units of measurement than mathematatical/set theoretic notions of types us computer folk seem to be fond of. Bill de hÓra -- Propylon www.propylon.com
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