On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 23:41 Europe/Rome, Robert Koberg wrote:
Hi,
This is probably a minor and implementation detail but I when I see the
examples of datatypes being giving I was wondering if you were taking into
consideration of XML Schema datatypes (and therefore RNG datatypes, though I
don't understand the desire of clearly object oriented-type people using
RNG). Some of the examples I have seen do not conform to the structures
allowed.
For example, unique IDs cannot start with a number, but all examples of IDs
have been strictly numerical. Also the date below:
http://host/path/id!date=20031015
does not conform to ISO 8601.
hmmm, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html, says
<quote>
part from the recommended primary standard notation YYYY-MM-DD, ISO 8601 also specifies a number of alternative formats for use in applications with special requirements. All of these alternatives can easily and automatically be distinguished from each other:
The hyphens can be omitted if compactness of the representation is more important than human readability, for example as in
19950204 </quote>
Am I just being to nit-picky or is this something that simply has no value
here?
but I agree: if we can, reusing datatypes from other standards is a good thing (might well give us code to reuse for parsing already implemented in other projects!)
-- Stefano.
