Re: Dates, time, positional data; conformance; and minor edits.

Thanks for the typos etc., which will be attended to during the next
rewrite.

I'll pass over the date question, and address the conformance question 
briefly:

"Mabry, F. DR            EECS" <df6954@exmail.usma.army.mil> writes:

> [quote from conformance section elided]

> Should there be consideration given to the development of a way to represent
> (and communicate) an alternative process for the acceptance of additional
> XML documents with a representation of datatype definitions and the
> (subsequent) generation of a new optimised binary representation,
> dynamically created schema represented as a programming language data
> structure, or an implementation in which the particular schema is compiled
> into executable code?  It is likely that there will be some automatic or
> semi-automatic process for generating the alternative representation in most
> systems.  Should the notion of a level or type of conformance be addressed?
> A datatype processor that provides an automated means to generate a more
> efficient representation but which allows completely automatic extension or
> change is really resulting in the same outcome as the second definition (for
> conformance to the XML Representation of Schemas) in section 6.

My personal view is that on the one hand standardising such a story in 
any detail would be premature, while on the other hand the definition
of layer 1 conformance specifically allows for it to happen _without_
having to revise the spec.

ht
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