[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:

>
> "It is also acceptable to omit elements to reduce precision. hh:mm,
> hhmm, and hh are all used."
>
> This seems to indicate that you can say 13:15 or 13, etc.
>
>
unfortunately, the W3C removed that flexibility

"The ·lexical space·
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dt-lexical-space> of *dateTime*
consists of finite-length sequences of characters of the form: |'-'?
yyyy '-' mm '-' dd 'T' hh ':' mm ':' ss ('.' s+)? (zzzzzz)?|"

ISO 8601 has what we want, but it isn't implemented in the
schema-processing tools.

Pragmatically, whats the point of setting up datatypes and then immediately
have them knocked back down to unimplemented?

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