In a city map viewer, rendering a filter effect for currently open businesses is a practical feature that can now be implemented with animation. However conditional processing is a technique that seemingly could compress the encoding of potentially many schedules as well as simplify the implementation in viewers. For example, the schedule for a business open Monday through Friday from 9AM to 5PM might be encoded by extending ISO 8601's recurring ordinal date notation to a regular expression such as R/W??-[1-5]T09:00/P08H I believe there are many other practical features in maps that would be promoted by temporal conditional processing. GregReceived on Saturday, 28 February 2004 09:38:51 GMT
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