[gurps] Building a VehicleML

[Tom Sparks]

--- On Wed, 18/2/09, Gerald 'roguebfl' Grenier <roguebfl at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Gerald 'roguebfl' Grenier <roguebfl at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gurps] Building a VehicleML
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Received: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 8:47 PM

Tom Sparks wrote:
> --- On Wed, 18/2/09, Gerald 'roguebfl' Grenier <roguebfl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Gerald 'roguebfl' Grenier <roguebfl at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gurps] Building a VehicleML
> To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
> Received: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 7:52 PM
> 
> Onno Meyer wrote:
> 
>> <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.
> 
> we have Imperial Unit, Metric system, International System of Units
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement
> 
> Not all of us live in Imperial unit country, I like in a country witch >use the Metric system

>yes but having not seen an non English version of GURPS I was assuming >the didn't not covert the measurements with the traslations. ad was >jusges that the DTD use the GURPS standards so that to did not need to >worry about localized units in parsing it.

>but I agree with Onno <tag>123456</tag> is better than ><tag>1,234.56</tag> or <tag>1.234,56</tag> issues

or could it be changed to this?
<tag>
<tag>123</tag>
<tag>56</tag>
</tag>


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