[tei-council] time is running out ... <measure> and <ps>

[Lou Burnard]

Syd Bauman wrote:
>>> * The "suggested values include" list for unit= of <measure> should
>>>   be pretty much as all-encompassing as we can get it.
>>>
>>>       
>> I think this is a silly idea. We don't supply exhaustive lists of 
>> language identifiers, but refer to places where people can find them. 
>> Same applies to standard names for units.
>>     
>
> But we don't supply a list of language identifiers because we can't,
> they're combinatorial. Just including language, script, and region
> subtags (i.e. not including variant, extension, and of course not
> private use subtags), there are over 17 million possibilities.[1]
>
> If we all put our heads together and tried I doubt we'd come up with
> 100 units.
>
>   

There are quite a few SI units too if you take into account the prefixes!

But I stand by the assertion that it just makes the TEI look silly  to 
tell people what unit to use for e.g. electrical resistivity.