I am having trouble determining from XML Schema Part 2 whether a date that has a timezone should be written 2002-03-22-05:00 or 2002-03-22T-05:00. The same applies to gYear, gYearMonth, etc. There seem to be no examples of these formats in the document, and there are no patterns given to specify the lexical value space. ISO 8601 is no help because it does not permit these formats. Under date (section 3.2.9) it is stated that "An optional following time zone qualifier is allowed as for dateTime". But the term "time zone qualifier" is not actually defined in the section on dateTime. In general I would expect to find a "T" between the date part of the value and the time part, and I would regard the time zone as being within the time part. But I can't see anything anywhere that tells me whether the "T" is required here. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.comReceived on Friday, 22 March 2002 13:22:22 UTC
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