Re: [ubl-dev] Code list extensibility and substitution groups

["David Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Adrian,

I've never seen this - but my guess is that GBp is in fact
pennies (p) instead of GBP pounds.

In which case the former is 100th of the regular usage.

In which case the reverse is true - you just got paid
in pennies and not pounds!

DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Walker" <adrianw@snet.net>
To: "William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@novannet.com>
Cc: <ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Code list extensibility and substitution groups


> Hi --
>
> A tangential thought...  I believe that in common UK usage, GBP and GBp
> mean different things, by a factor of 100 !
>
> It's good to see that ISO does not sanction the latter.  But if it's
tucked
> away somewhere in XML, it could lead to dramatic mistakes.
>
> One wonders how many people think they are 100 times richer than they
> really are.
>
>                                  Cheers,  -- Adrian
>