That is
doing something else
<xsd:simpleType name="MeasurementUnitCommonCodeContentType"><xsd:restriction base="xsd:token"><xsd:minLength value="1"/><xsd:maxLength value="3"/><xsd:enumeration value="05"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation><ccts:Name>lift</ccts:Name></xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation></xsd:enumeration><xsd:enumeration value="06"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation><ccts:Name>small spray</ccts:Name></xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation></xsd:enumeration><xsd:enumeration value="08"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation><ccts:Name>heat lot</ccts:Name></xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation></xsd:enumeration><xsd:enumeration value="10"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation><ccts:Name>group</ccts:Name></xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation></xsd:enumeration><xsd:enumeration value="11"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation><ccts:Name>outfit</ccts:Name></xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation></xsd:enumeration><xsd:enumeration value="13"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation><ccts:Name>ration</ccts:Name></xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation></xsd:enumeration>
"It is the theory
that decides what can be observed."
- Albert Einstein
Use codes, not symbols.
Then you can use the UN/ECE international standardization of the SI
brochure (described in attached), and in schema form at http://www.unece.org/uncefact/codelist/standard/UNECE_MeasurementUnitCommonCode_6.xsd
("Codes for Units of Measure used in International Trade").
You get rid of those 'pesky mu (µ) for
micro' problems, which I'm sure is one of the reasons code lists were
invented to begin with -- different languages, fonts, ...
And you get a schema.
Translation to symbols happens further up the food chain.
-A
Toby Considine wrote, On 6/15/2011 3:41 PM:
There has been much back and forth on the final
source for *exactly* the correct si prefixes, and multiple
sources
Well, at last:
http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/general.html
http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf
http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/
and, in particular, the prefixes….
http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter3/prefixes.html
Still no publicly accessibly codelist.
Of course, there is still that pesky mu (µ) for
micro….
Tc
Note that the attached IEC links are for binary
(computer stuff) rather than for decadic information
“The single biggest problem in communication is
the illusion that it has taken place.”
– George Bernard Shaw.