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Subject: [humanmarkup] Re: New attributeGroup:humlTemporalAtts?
You convinced me. Thanks Ciao, Rex At 11:39 AM -0700 10/22/02, Kurt Cagle wrote: >Why not just use an xs:dateTime type here, rather than having separate >fields for date and time? > ><xs:attribute name="fromDate" type="xs:dateTime" use="required"> ><xs:attribute name="toDate" type="xs:dateTime" use="required"> > >You need to include the time element anyway because of the use="required" >and its easy enough to parse off the time if you don't need it (it also cuts >down on the number of attributes). If you don't know the time, you can also >always just assume midnight: T00:00:00.000Z > >Sorry to add this note now to your overburdened workload, but it just makes >more sense to me to do it this way. > >-- Kurt > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com> >To: <humanmarkup@lists.oasis-open.org>; <cognite@zianet.com>; ><clbullar@ingr.com>; <kurt@kurtcagle.net>; <mbatsis@netsmart.gr> >Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:13 AM >Subject: New attributeGroup:humlTemporalAtts? > > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> First, I really, really hate this. I truly do not want to extend the >> public-comment discussions, but I keep running into this problem with >> date and time ranges in our elements. It seems unavoidable to me that >> we need to specify a standard way make these designations. And, >> because we have not discussed on the public lists, and it is NEW, and >> not just a refinement of something we have discussed, I want to get a >> group assessment of whether I should post this to the public comment >> list and rish confusing issues? >> >> This is what seems like the wisest thing to me: >> >> <xs:attributeGroup name="humlTemporalAtts"> >> <xs:annotation> >> <xs:dcoumentation xml:lang="en"> >> <xhtml:h2>Human Temporal Attributes<?xhtml:h2> >> <xhtml:p>This is used to designate time and >> date periods using the standard representations in the format of from >> a date and/or time to a later date and/or time.</xhtml:p> >> </xs:documentation> >> </xs:annotation> >> <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:ID" use="required"> >> <xs:attribute name="humlName" type="xs:string" use="required"> >> <xs:attribute name="fromDate" type="xs:date" use="required"> >> <xs:attribute name="toDate" type="xs:date" use="required"> >> <xs:attribute name="fromTime" type="xs:time" use="required"> >> <xs:attribute name="toTime" type="xs:time" use="required"> >> </xs:attributeGroup> >> >> Gosh, I hope this is the last exception. I will have some interesting >> tales to tell when this is done. Insistence on consistency might be >> the bugaboo of small minds, and if so, my mind is getting smaller all >> the time. >> >> Please let me know what you think. >> >> Ciao. >> Rex >> -- >> Rex Brooks >> Starbourne Communications Design >> 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309 >> http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com >> >> -- Rex Brooks Starbourne Communications Design 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309 http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
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