[gurps] Building a VehicleML

Tom Sparks tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au
Wed Feb 18 03:17:27 CST 2009


--- On Wed, 18/2/09, Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de> wrote:
From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [gurps] Building a VehicleML
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Received: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 8:05 PM


> > <aspeed measurement="mph">2360</aspeed>
> > 
> > to make it a genuine number. Except that I can't think
> > of anything other than (US or international) mph in that 
> > field, so the attribute is rather pointless.
> 
> well i think was think of the different types of miles, like nautical etc
> 
> but the real questions is do want to format to use multiple measurements 
> or default GURPS is use scripting to make conventions if necessary.

>When it comes to searching or comparison, "2360" is much
>better than "2,360" or "2,360 mph". 

>The pitfall is comparing apples and oranges, e.g. weights
>in pounds or tons, or volumes in dtons, vsp or cf.  

XSL can more then do it 
see http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible3/source/05/5-9.xsl

tom_a_sparks

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