[tei-council] dating attrs

[Arianna Ciula]

Syd Bauman wrote:
> BTW, the development version of the Guidelines (the one which is in
> https://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei/trunk/P5/Source/ and
> available as HTML at
> http://bauman.zapto.org/~syd/temp/Guidelines-web/en/html/index.html)

This must be down for some reasons today. Lou, could you please point me 
to the html draft of ND or could you make one please? I can't find it 
within the Draft folder. May be it's easy to produce one with the xsl on 
sourceforge, but don't want to risk to use the wrong stylesheet etc.

Arianna

> also has all the new dating attributes in it. Since we all voted on
> it, I don't think there is much controversial there, except as listed
> below. On the other hand, paying close attention for class errors,
> typos, etc., would be helpful.
> 
> Possible Issues
> -------- ------
> 
> * Rather than create a new module for ISO dating attributes, I stuck
>   'em directly into the namesdates module.
> 
> * We never decided on the names of the ISO attributes. I called them
>     value-iso=
>     dur-iso=
>     notBefore-iso=
>   etc. My thinking (what little there was) was that it would be nice
>   if these attributes sorted near their "simple" W3C counterparts.
> 
> * We should perhaps discuss how strong the warnings against using
>   "24:00" and basic formats (i.e., no colons or hyphens in some
>   cases) should be. Currently the remarks say
> 
>     <p>For all representations for which ISO 8601 describes both a
>     <term>basic</term> and an <term>extended</term> format, these
>     Guidelines recommend use of the extended format.</p>
>     <p>While ISO 8601 permits the use of both <code>00:00</code> and
>     <code>24:00</code> to represent midnight, these Guidelines
>     strongly recommend against the use of <code>24:00</code>. <!-- As
>     there are only 24 hours in a day, numbered "00" through "23", use
>     of "24:00" implies a 25th hour, and some software may be confused.
>     Note that when there is a leap second, it should be indicated
>     with 23:59:60. --></p>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> tei-council mailing list
> tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> http://lists.village.Virginia.EDU/mailman/listinfo/tei-council

-- 
Dr Arianna Ciula
Research Associate
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS (UK)
Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch