From: R Knapp (gyp_caver_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 12:00:30 CET
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 20:23:12 -0700, P A Hill & E V Goodall wrote:
> What the heck I'll join in.
Excellent!
> Just to help John make his pedantic point (which he needs no help in doing).
!
> Specifying the units of the standard values at the top wouldn't be in the spirit of
> a 'canonical form'. The whole point of the idea of a canonical form is to allow:
> (1) the original to be preserved
> but also provide the convenience of
> (2) some standard form that can be easier to process by anything large or small which
> would like to do something useful (but often a narrowly focused use). This could be
> anything 'down the pipe' as John has said. It is a bit 'mean' to require every last
> tool to have to work through all tags and understand units just to get some basic
> facts, or generate some basic picture.
I guess it is the difference between being explicit or implicit. If all info is
presented, it helps remove doubt. The attributes I'm suggesting won't be buried; it would
be right at the top.... as in:
<CaveXML version="0.02" value_angles="degrees" value_distances="meters"
xmlns="http://www.CaveXML.org">
... or canon_angles and such...
Nothing fancy.
> But what happens if the original was in the same units as the standard units?
An excellent argument!
I like both:
<Distance reading="10" value="3.05"/>
<Distance original="10" value="3.05"/>
or
<Distance value="3.05"/>
when canonical units match survey units. It makes it much clearer than having redunancy
for:
<Distance reading="3.05" value="3.05"/>
Richard Knapp
gyp_caver_at_yahoo.com
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