[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[James Cummings]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>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?

I see, I thought it might be the W3C who had removed the flexibility.
Is what we are suggesting then adding the ability to use 13:15?  Is there a way 
to still make this compatible with the W3 datatype?  (i.e. saying that if it 
only has one colon then it is really got :00 on the end.)  Or is this something 
that should be done in a processing stage?

Sorry for the naive questions, just trying to make sure I understand.

-James