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Re: A Last Call comment about the seamtnics of xsd:dateTimeStamp in OWL 2 (caused by the yesterday's decision about numerics)

From: Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@deri.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:13:45 +0000
Message-ID: <49BA4DF9.5000705@deri.org>
To: Boris Motik <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
CC: 'W3C OWL Working Group' <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Boris Motik a écrit :
>  [...]
> Note that this is *exactly* the same problem as the one we have with xsd:decimal
> and xsd:double; hence, I consider it really strange to use one solution for
> numerics but a completely different one for dates.

I agree. And for consistency, it would be reasonable to adopt this 
change, IMHO.

> [...]
> - Nobody (such as RIF) can scorn us for going our way: we can always point to
> XML Schema and say "Here is the holy bible!"

The Bible is all about interpretation ;-)


Regards,
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Antoine Zimmermann
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