[tei-council] processing TEI times

Syd Bauman Syd_Bauman at Brown.edu
Sun Oct 2 18:35:52 EDT 2005


> Really, I don't think this is wise. Define a separate datatype for
> "isodateformat", and let people change to that if they want. Add an
> extra attribute called "@isodate" or something. But adding "oh and
> practically anything else" at the end of a list of datatypes from
> an external source just does not seem right.

What do you mean "practically anything else"? It permits almost
nothing else, except the same things that xsd:dateTime and xsd:time
permit, with a precision truncated to hours or seconds.




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