Re: <enumeration> of duration types

Michael Kay wrote:
>>The spec lays out the order in 3.2.6.2 [1] and clarifies 
>>normalization.
>>
>>P12M is indeed P1Y but the comparison to P365D fails.
>>
>>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#duration-order
>>
> 
> 
> I agree that this implies that durations are normalized for the purpose of
> ordering, but it's not clear that the order relation and equality matching
> (e.g. for matching the enumeration facet) have anything to do with each
> other. It's clearly stated elsewhere in the spec that equality is based on
> identity in the value space, and the value space for duration appears to
> treat P1Y and P12M as distinct values.
> 
> I would like you to be right, but I don't see this in the spec.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
> 
> 

I believe that's something to be clarified in 1.1

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Received on Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:06:59 UTC