[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On dates/times again, one should bear in mind that XML processors
may start using datatype information. At the moment, the
only thing where it matters is in validation; but in the world
of W3C Schema and XSLT2, the processing application can say
"what basic datatype did you work out for this attribute".  So if
our schema said "xsd:dateTime | long-regexp-allowing:13:15as-a-time",
then the processor might take different actions depending
on whether you did 13:15 or 13:15:00.

It is not easy to think through whether this matters or not.

As ever, I vote to keep the default to be compliant with XSD, and to
simply document how people who need full ISO 8601 can
extend their local schema.

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