Re: Looking at the time element (again) (ISSUE-97)

In my version of the proposals, I perform lexical analysis of @datetime against xsd:date, xsd:dateTime and xsd:time and choose the datatype based on the match. It's quite simple.

Gregg Kellogg

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On Nov 10, 2011, at 4:48 AM, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

> Now that <time> seems to be back into the picture, I have looked at ISSUE-97 again[1].
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> The issue, as raised by Stéphane, proposes to understand the '@datetime' property of the <time> element. Essentially, if the source contains this:
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> <time property="something" datetime="2009-05-10">May 10th 2009</time>
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> we should, implicitly, consider this as being
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> <time property="something" datetime="2009-05-10" content="2009-05-10">May 10th 2009</time>
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> and then let the core RDFa processing go. That is of course easy.
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> However... do we want to add a datatype to this? One would think so, but then we get to a very slippery slope. Which datatype? Looking at 
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#date

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> we do have quite a lot of possibilities... There is of course xsd:dateTime (this is what Stéphane used in his original mail for the issue). This would mean the transformation of the <time> element into:
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> <time property="something" datetime="2009-05-10" content="2009-05-10T00:00:00-00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime">May 10th 2009</time>
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> but there are a bunch of others, like gYear, gYearMonth, etc.
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> Personally, I would propose to use xsd:dateTime only. But that has to be decided by the group.
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> However, nothing with time is simple... If the author puts in the whole ISO format, then are of course fine. But I would expect that in the vast majority of cases the hour and minute and the others will all be missing. Is it all right to just add the 0 hour, as Stéphane did it? Again, I can live with that, but this is something to be decided and known for interoperability reasons...
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> Minor things, but should be cast in stone:-)
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> Ivan
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/97

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