Re: Units of Measure

[Mike Rawlins <mike@rawlinsecconsulting.com>]

Thank you.  So, no ISO standard (that anyone has identified yet), but a
UN/ECE recommendation.  Might you have a pointer to said Recommendation 20?

"Champion, Jean-Luc" wrote:

> Data Element 6411 is the Measurement unit code in EDIFACT.
> It follows the UN/ECE Recommendation 20.
> Rgds,
> Jean-Luc Champion
> IONA Technologies, EMEA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Rawlins
> To: ebXML Core
> Sent: 18/05/01 13:54
> Subject: Re: Units of Measure
>
> Isn't there an ISO standard for expressing units of measure?  I looked
> at
> some EDIFACT data elements for units of measure (in a printed
> implementation guide and EDISIM), but couldn't find any references.
>
> "William J. Kammerer" wrote:
>
> > Neal Smith shared a proposal from the Petrochemical Open Systems Corp,
> > an energy industry consortium, for standard XML data representations
> of
> > Units of Measure.
> >
> > This is indeed something that could/should be expressed as ebXML Core
> > Components.  But for other work in this area, also see
> > http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-core/200012/msg00034.html, where
> > there's a pointer to a GCA paper entitled "What XML Schema Designers
> > Need to Know About Measurement Units."
> >
> > William J. Kammerer
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