Colin wrote:
This proposal is shaping up nicely. Could you think of other "client"
uses for just the measurement format? Already described in this thread
were some excellent uses for measurement + currency (e.g. searching
job listings).
Thanks Colin. For just the measurement format, of course automatic
localization based on a browser preference, but I imagine you already
thought about this one.
Also, I'm curious to know your thoughts on how this would tie in to
the proposed historical uF. Would the entire currency+measure get
wrapped in a history? That doesn't seem entirely necessary: the size
of a barrel of oil doesn't change (right?). Only the $ currency
fluctuates.
In my adaptation of XBRL currency semantics to uF, I have explored the
use of empty anchors as references to global definitions of units
instead of redundant local definitions, but I haven't got any feedback
from the community on this yet. See
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-formats#XBRL
This is not just relevant for the history uF but also for any tabular
representation (ex. financial statements) where you don't want to repeat
the unit/currency in each cell. See
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples#Use_of_currency_amounts_in_tables
Guillaume
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