- From: Dave Peterson <davep@iit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:18:25 -0500
- To: Daniel Vogelheim <Daniel.Vogelheim@Sun.COM>, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
At 6:06 PM +0100 041104, Daniel Vogelheim wrote: >Hello all, > >Regarding dateTime (and similar time types): > >ISO 8601 specifies that seconds and fractions of seconds are to be >separated by a comma or a dot, with comma being preferred. The XML >Schema data type 'dateTime' allows only the dot. This difference is >a bit of a nuisance when validating ISO conforming date-time values >with second fractions. Is this deliberate, or could this be >considered an errata? I believe it was deliberate. Schema is more concerned with "everyone does it the same way" than ISO was; whether they should have locked in to use only comma rather than period could perhaps be debated. There are many ISO formats that are not allowed in Schema date/time lexical representations; this is just one of many. (Speaking for myself, not for the Schema WG.) -- Dave Peterson SGMLWorks! davep@iit.edu
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