Re: Datatype section

[Joaquin Miller <miller@joaquin.net>]

All i know about this list and ISO is what i read in Betty's
file (datatypes.doc) attached to her message of last Wednesday:

"The table below shows
the datatypes that are not natively provided in DTDs.  These
datatypes will be available in W3C Schema Specification, as well as the
Regular Language description for XML (RELAX) schema language that has
recently been submitted to ISO."

What i mean by "perhaps this is not the place to mention these
items" is this: if the terms are from an draft submitted to ISO, the
perhaps the place to mention them is in a message to the submitter,
rather than on this list.  That might be the case, for example, if
most people on this list were inclined to leave details about items on
this list to another organization.

I went ahead and mentioned these items anyway.  (That was the main
purpose of my message.)  They are the items in my message, such as
the treacherous 'midnight' and the amusing and timely 'century.'


At 08:23 AM 1/8/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> Joaquin refers to "a few items that are a
> bit deeper than text
> format and conversions."  Since the list "comes from a
> draft standard
> submitted to ISO, perhaps this is not the place to mention these
> items.
> If it is not, please delete this message now."
>
> Dear Joaquin:
>
> Now you've got me:  Whatever "ISO" list are you referring
> to?  And why
> can't you mention it? In any case,  Betty has clearly indicated that
> the
> Global Datatypes come directly from the XML Schema Specification
> (XML
> Schema Part 2: Datatypes, W3C Candidate Recommendation, 24 October
> 2000), available at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/.
>  What's this got to do with
> the ISO?  If you mean ISO 8601:1988  Representations of dates
> and times,
> which some of the Schema Date, Time, and Duration data types are
> built
> upon, it's freely available at:
> http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf.
> How's the newer TC 154 draft of this substantially different from
> the
> standard itself?

Cordially,

Joaquin

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