ISSUE-121: Canonical EXI needs clarification on how to canonicalize dateTime values

Canonical EXI needs clarification on how to canonicalize dateTime values

State:
CLOSED
Product:
Canonical EXI
Raised by:
Takuki Kamiya
Opened on:
2018-04-16
Description:
In email exchanges (not public), Rich Rollman (AgileDelta) pointed out
Canonical EXI specification (Candidate Recommendation) is not very unclear
as to how dateTime values are normalized. This resulted in interoperability
failure in a couple of test cases between implementations.
Related Actions Items:
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Related emails:
  1. AW: Draft request to publish Proposed Recommendation of the Canonical EXI (revised) (from daniel.peintner.ext@siemens.com on 2018-04-17)
  2. Draft request to publish Proposed Recommendation of the Canonical EXI (revised) (from tkamiya@us.fujitsu.com on 2018-04-16)
  3. ISSUE-121: Canonical EXI needs clarification on how to canonicalize dateTime values [Canonical EXI] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2018-04-16)

Related notes:

The WG clarified the specification by describing that in general we expect
utcTime canonicalization based on XML schema [1] with the arithmetic algorithm
explained here [2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#dateTime-canonical-representation
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#adding-durations-to-dateTimes

Takuki Kamiya, 16 Apr 2018, 21:37:12

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