Re: New proposal (Re: getting rid of xsd:dateTime ?)

+1!

If more people agree on this, i will include it in the API doc.

Best,
Florian


>> A Date value MUST be represented using one of the following XML
>> Schema datatypes: gYear, gYearMonth, date, dateTime, dateTimeStamp,
>> depending on the precision available on the data.
>> 
>> NB: I add dateTimeStamp which is new in XSD 1.1 [1], and imposes a
>> timezone. I know that XSD 1.1. is not recommended yet, but OWL2 found a
>> nice way to get around this problem [2].
>> 
>> This would have to be reflected in the API document as well [3].
>> 
>> pa
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/
>> [2]
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-conformance-20091027/#XML_Schema_Datatypes
>> [3]
>> http://dev.w3.org/2008/video/mediaann/mediaont-api-1.0/mediaont-api-1.0.html#attributes-7
>> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-profiles/#Entities_3
>> 
>>> 
>>> Felix
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   This hinders interoperability a tiny bit, but not as much as inventing a
>>>   day and an hour for media resources for which we only know the year.
>>> 
>>>    pa
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   To all, some general remarks and conclusions
>>> 
>>>   * as most metadata format are more permissive regarding dates than
>>>   xsd:dateTime, I suggest we simply use rdfs:Literal for all our date
>>>   properties, and explain that it should be of the form
>>>   YYYY[-MM[-DD[Thh[:mm[:ss[.fff]]]]]]
>>> 
>>> 
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