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" <>
>To: <>; <>;
><>; <>; <>
>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 *
>>
>>
--
Rex Brooks
Starbourne Communications Design
1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309
http://www.starbourne.com *
