[tei-council] oversimplification: <measure> isn't measured

[Daniel O'Donnell]

This may be a slightly different issue, then: but I remember a
discussion about whether any of the following were a good idea:

> <measure type="weight">
>   <num>2</num> pounds of flesh</measure>
>  <measure type="currency">£10-11-6d</measure>
>  <measure type="area">2 merks of old extent</measure>

The reason was that the units are lost for all time as far as the
computer is concerned. I think this then led to the case of MS
dimensions and Lat and Long (didn't this actually start at the meeting
with our attempts to encode things like rivers)?

-d

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 15:00 -0400, Syd Bauman wrote:
> > Was not a point that there was a mix of text and children possible
> > in measure?
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're getting at, Dan.
> 
> 
> > As I remember the discussion is was largely to try and make
> > dimensions machine-usable.
> 
> Right, which is part of why I think allowing text inside <measureGrp>
> is a step in the wrong direction.
> 
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