Current state of ISSUE-141

Last week I took on an action to summarize the current state of ISSUE-141 "How many of the possible datatypes for @datetime should be supported?"

In the 2011-11-17 telecon [1], the WG resolved to express the intention to follow the time element discussion for subsequent datatypes.

In the 2012-05-03 telecon [3], the WG resolved to support additional datatypes gYear. gYearMonth and duration. The WG also resolved to process the text contents of <time> in the absense of @datetime.

The RDFa test suite has tests specifically to look for @datetime values for xsd:date, xsd:time, xsd:dateTime, xsd:duration, xsd:gYear, and xsd:gYearMonth.

Furthermore, consistent with HTML5, the test suite tests for the value of the element being any of these datatypes (e.g. 0275).

The EARL report [3], shows 3/4 processors passing these tests (librdfa was the holdout).

I believe we can close this issue as resolved, and that the spec should be updated accordingly.

Gregg

[1] http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2011-11-17#resolution_1
[2] http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2012-05-03#resolution_3
[3] http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2012-05-03#resolution_4

Received on Monday, 13 August 2012 17:48:02 UTC