[uf-new] Finishing Currency
Andy Mabbett
andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Fri Sep 28 10:08:41 PDT 2007
In message <46FD2CBE.9070801 at brixlogic.com>, Guillaume Lebleu
<gl at brixlogic.com> writes
>Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> My preference would be to use the previously-described
>> "[[title-trigger]] solution:
>>
>> <span class="hmoney title-trigger" title="USD 0.1">
>> 10 cents
>> </span>
>>
>> In the latter, the rule for the title is that it MUST contain only an
>> ISO 4217 currency code and a numeric value, (in either order) separated
>> by a space.
>>
>>
>>
>Another solution, conceptually, would be to use the ideas used in XBRL,
>and markup on a separate page/footnote/legend the definition "1 cent is
>1/100th of a US dollar", and then refer to that definition using the
>include pattern from the page containing the "10 cents" content (I
>haven't figured the XHTML yet, though).
Can you provide examples of people publishing such a legend, alongside
prices and other such monetary amounts?
Of the two models, which do you think would be easier, for publishers?
Which do you think would be more efficient - +/- 1 million publishers
make that statement, including it in the code of, say, 100 parsers?
--
Andy Mabbett
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