On 23/04/2013 19:57, Thomas Beale wrote: > > They are catered for > <http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_dtypes_date.asp>, but I have > to admit, in a pretty annoying way. But better than not being catered > for... > > The lack of support for hh:??:?? is actually the fault of the ISO8601 > standard, and I suspect it's because the writers never actually > implemented a parser, and had the simple realisation that a partial > date or time (e.g. "1995", "12") is impossible to distinguish > syntactically from an integer in a mixed data
I meant 'and never had the simple realisation...' > stream - some other help is always needed. > > XML Schema solves it with the data types gMonthDay, gYear etc. Ugly, > but not really their fault. > > A slightly better designed 8601 standard would have saved a lot of > problems, and the ultimate fault in my view lies at the door of ISO: a > completely wrong model of doing standards. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20130423/946038a8/attachment.html>
