ODF 1.2 CD03 (all versions) 17.3.13 (dateOrDateTime)

[Jesper Lund Stocholm <4a4553504552@gmail.com>]

Description:

Section 17.3.13 (dateOrDateTime) has the following text:

"A dateOrDateTime value is essentially an [xmlschema-2] date and time
value with an optional time component. In other words, it may contain
either a date, or a date and time value."

Problem:

It is unclear to me what "essentially" means. Does the value sometimes
not contain an xmlschema-2 date and time value?

Proposed solution:

Make it clear that either:

1) a dateOrTime value is defined (and must conform to) as specified in
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#dateTime
(basically the reference that is already used)

2) add descriptive text to the specification with examples of when
"essentially" applies and when "essentially" does not apply.

I would encourage ODF TC to go with "option 1". It would enable
maximum reuse of existing libraries conforming to "xsd:datetime".

-- 
Jesper Lund Stocholm
www.idippedut.dk
SC34/WG4 http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc34/wg4/