Berny,

I'd choose one unit of measurement to be stored in the XML document. Then you can use XSL to provide different displays of the length.

>Could anybody give me some idea as to the best way to represent 'lengths' in XML files.
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>I have a requirement to output units of lengths in both metric and imperial, ie millimeters and feet inches and fraction of inches.
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>Has anybody got any pointers as to the various methods of achieving this?