//allow meta data such as Dublin Core coverage ... ... Primary Schoolchildren Literacy //This is separated into the numerator and denominator as //the use case involves automatic calculation of the metric //from data collected by each department (state) //to calculate the percentage a program will sum the numerators and divide by the sum of the denominators Number of Schoolchildren that can read and write Department of Education //ideally link to a sdmx (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) http://sdmx.org/ document so as to allow the reuse of statistics /* This is a fragment of an sdmx file 2004-10 */ 40000 43000 Total Number of Schoolchildren Department of Education 47000 49000 //Allow several TargetDates including past ones (for historical purposes) //use css to specify the formatting eg: // TargetDate[@type="Poor"] { color:red;} // TargetDate[@type="Good"] { color:green;} 50 60 70 80 90 56 67 78 87 95 1.1.1 //define in one place the formats used for percentages, number and currency formats in the whole document