Requirement on XSD datatypes

The current requirements section is a list of "candidate requirements" not a
complete list of all we will cover.  Rather than requirement 3.7, which
names calls out date and time datatypes, I suggest we include a requirement
to identify a core set of XSD datatypes that implementations will support.  

At the F2F, we had just before the date/time requirement:

"""
 * Queries supporting datatypes xsd:integer and xsd:float with operations:
less than, equal, greater than [DATATYPES-IF]
"""

which we didn't explicitly vote on (its not recorded anyway).

I am neutral as to whether we should identify any datatypes now.  If it is a
matter of debate, let's not and leave space for a debate, including liaising
with other groups.  If we do identify some datatypes now, and I'm not an XSD
expert, I suggest some numeric types and string at least.  Maybe a mention
of date/time.  (I would prefer to see date/time in the final recommendation
as users ask for them but date/time is not trivial.)

Suggestion:

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3.7 Support for XSD Datatypes

The query language design must identify a set of XSD datatypes and
operations on these datatypes.  Test case of queries involving datatype
operations will be developed.

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Received on Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:02:36 UTC