[Trilinos-Users] A couple of questions about ParamterList

[Jonathan Guyer]

On Apr 26, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Markus Berndt wrote:

> Since we have to input many quantities that have units associated with
> them, it would be nice if there was a way to associate an additional
> string with a parameter in the ParameterList XML representation which
> could be used to specify the units of a parameter. Is there already a
> mechanism that could facilitate that? If not, I think this would be a
> popular feature if it was available.

However you go about this with from the Trilinos side of things, I'd encourage not reinventing the wheel regarding the units themselves: 

  http://unitsml.nist.gov/