[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:

>
> 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?

you can say "xsd:dateTime | AComplexRegexp" if you want.

me, I would just swallow my objections and say "lets use XSD datatypes
and lobby them to improve it".
I see little point in saying "we want full ISO 8601 but we'll just
reduce it to CDATA for validation purposes".
babies, bathwater, etc.

> (i.e. saying that if it only has one colon then it is really got :00
> on the end.)

cant be done in a schema

>   Or is this something that should be done in a processing stage?

processing is another matter, this is about validation only


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