Re: [docbook] docbook 5.0b comment

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Jirka Kosek <>
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2005-11-15T17:21:10+00:00
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Re: [docbook] docbook 5.0b comment
Dave Pawson wrote:

> db.date.contentmodel =
>   xsd:date | xsd:dateTime | xsd:gYearMonth | xsd:gYear | text
> 
> It may have been a positive decision,
> but I'm curious why the 'text' was left on the end
> when tighter validation is possible.

Because some users including me want to write

<date>15. listopadu 2005</data>

or

<date>15.--17. listopadu 2005</data>

which is hard to satisfy with strong datatyping. I think that for 
document oriented vocabularies like DocBook it is better not to be very 
strict about datatypes.

				Jirka


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