[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:

>
> <q> Right truncated formats are also, in general, not permitted for
> the datatypes defined in this specification with the following
> exceptions: right-truncated representations of dateTime are used as
> lexical representations for date, gMonth, gYear.</q>
>
> It seems silly to allow it for date, gMonth, and gYear, but not for
> time.  I understand there is a minor benefit in implementations, but
> the same type of logic has to exist for processing right-truncated
> date as time, so don't see that it is much of a saving.  *shrug* Oh
> well, I'm sure more able brains than mine have thought this through...

I just shouted at two W3C folks about this and they shrugged their
shoulders and said "well you should see the problems timezones cause" :-}



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