[jsdl-wg] [Fwd: [members] OASIS TC Call for Participation: OASIS UnitsML TC]

[Andreas Savva]

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Andreas Savva wrote:
>> FYI. This might be of interest to anyone who felt sad when we removed
>> the definition for the definitions for Units from version 0.9 (or so) of
>> the JSDL.
> 
> I don't feel sad at all. What they're proposing looks crackers to me,
> with an end result of much software having to be written to just detect
> if anyone is doing anything odd in a particular situation. Our approach
> of fixing the units is much better. :-)
> 

You won't get any argument from me on this. It has been bothering me
however that the JSDL units for elements are recorded only in the spec
so they are implicit in the JSDL documents. (Everybody reads the spec,
right?)

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Andreas Savva
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd