• To: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: xml-dev@l...
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:59:35 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• Organization: Propylon
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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

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