RE: Date Representation Best Practice

>
> Aside from the practical considerations of generating resources for
> all possible dates, are there any other reasons why one would favour
> literals over resources? Will the proposals for data typing literals
> cover date relationships?
>

The datatyping proposals are now in the latest round of working drafts, and
suggest the use of XML Schema Datatypes.

I believe that XML Schema Datatypes would allow either of the approaches
that you outlined ... you would need to check the specs but I think there is
both datatypes for dates and also for years and months ...

Jeremy

Received on Thursday, 14 November 2002 06:59:19 UTC