Re: xml schema dateTime vs timestamp -> was -> RE: PIDF - using xml schema

Would you object if we try to interject this change?

-derek

Graham Klyne <[email protected]> writes:

> Not a bug, but a feature !-)
> 
> More seriously, we were following ISO8601 which seemed the right thing
> to do at the time.  Subsequent developments may suggest a more rigid
> approach to be more appropriate.
> 
> Unfortunately, this spec is now in the RFC editor queue, with other
> queued documents dependent upon it, so it's late for a normative
> change.  I'd suggest, for now, that any specs that if we cite this (as
> opposed to XML schema), and further specify that only uppercase 'Z'
> and 'T' be used.
> 
> #g
> --
> 
> At 03:49 PM 4/19/02 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >Datetime allows for mixed-case identifiers?  That sounds like a
> >bug in Datetime..  It should be fixed-case.  Graham?
> >
> >-derek
> >
> >Jonathan Rosenberg <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > "Carr, Wayne" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > After a quick look at both now, it looks like there may be an difference
> > > > that makes it so IMPP datetime isn't a subset of schema dateTime.  It
> > > > looks
> > > > like dateTime lets you use either 't' or 'T' and either 'z' or 'Z' and
> > > > xml
> > > > schema looks like it only lets you use 'Z' and 'T'.
> > > >
> > > > If IMPP dateTime isn't a subset of schema dateTime, we'd have to use
> > > > string
> > > > or create the correct type in the schema.  A quick fix is to make it
> > > > string
> > > > and which is all a DTD would do.
> > >
> > > I don't see the value in having a separate datetime which is *almost*
> > > the same as schemas, but not quite, especially if the difference is just
> > > syntactic. I would prefer to fix the impp date time spec to agree with
> > > the schema format.
> > >
> > > -Jonathan R.
> > >
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> Graham Klyne
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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