[tei-council] @calendar: note in the wrong place

[Lou's Laptop]

Syd Bauman wrote:
>> Looking at this again, I am wondering why we have a @dur attribute at 
>> all, if durational information can be carried by any of the @when-*  
>> attributes.
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> Duration information can be carried on the when-iso= attribute, but
> not the when= attribute, as the compound construction is a feature of
> ISO 8601 that is not in the W3C profile.
>   

Thanks, that answers my question.
> IIRC, the logic for keeping dur-iso= was just to keep the attributes
> in the W3C and the ISO set parallel for consistency.
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I think this desire may have lead us astray then. If @when-iso can 
express everything that (non-ISO) @when, @to, @from, and @dur can 
express in a single attribute, why do we have redundantly  @to-iso, 
@from-iso and @dur-iso?

> ...
>  Do we want to say that
> from-iso= (or from=) and to-iso= (or to=) cannot be used on the same
> element that has a when-iso=? Or be in the business of saying "don't
> use the combined ISO forms if you can split it out into 2 attrs"?
>
>
>   
The former. To the extent that they wouldnt be defined even!

> Hope this is clear -- I'm off teaching a TEI seminar and thus very
> pressed for time.
>
>   
Funnily enough, me too.

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