Re: <text> vs. <comment> and data format

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From: Devin Kouts (devinkouts_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 15:04:16 CET 

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>
>> 3. I believe there is already a date standard and what you show is NOT
>> it. I would suggest sticking with that. The one that comes to mind is ISO 8601
>> form 2001-01-26 (sortable, not any use of slashes to be be confused with
>
> Excellent.
>
>>> Just to play with text blocks a bit, I might suggest an optional
>>> title/name attribute for the main text block. So in summary,
>>> <text xml:lang="es" author="Jose" date="2001-01-27">
>>> que significa?
>>> </text>
>>
>
> I had a read of this standard at the URL supplied but what do you write if you know the year but not the month or day? or if you know just year and month?
>
> Mike

Several of the Cave Survey software authors beat me up about this one
previously. Because not everyone has read ISO 8601, and because
Europeans prefer 4 February 2001 and American's commonly prefer Feb. 4
2001, it was strongly suggested to me that the date be broken into its
elemental components. For example:

<Date>
   <Day>4</Day>
   <Month>2</Month>
   <Year>2001</Year>
</Date>
or
<Date Day="4" Month="2" Year="2001"/>

This approach allows the application to reconstruct the date into
whatever view the author (or user) chooses.

<Note> seems like a very reasonable suggestion, vs. <Comment>, <Text> or
<Narrative>.

Devin

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