Re: <time> values in HTML5

Liam R E Quin scripsit:

> Year-Week-Day can easily map into an existing type, of course, as can
> Year-Week, if one takes just the first day of the week as the point to
> map.

By the same token, you could map gYears onto a date (September 22, say)
and gYearMonths too (onto the Ides, for example).  But the interval
meaning of these types is extensional, not intensional:  "1066" as a
gYear means the whole of that year, and not merely, say, October 14 at
0900 UTC.

> The bigger aspect is that if the "time" element is there to do
> iCal-like work, it needs to represent things like recurring events,
> and XSD lacks that concept, and so do the other specs using XSD for
> their type system,

They are not entirely absent: gMonth, gMonthDay, and time are recurring
intervals.  But it's true that *general* recurring intervals are lacking.

> One such change might be to have the XSD spec link to a public
> registry a bit like the XPointer registry, but for new Schema types.

That seems a fine idea, provided it is understood that implementing the
registry is not a conformance requirement, merely a SHOULD.

> This also raises the question, long term, of what to do about future
> change requests to XSD after the current WG has closed.

Adopt DTLL while you still can?

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Received on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 19:33:23 UTC