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Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 16:03:59 CET
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>With the discussion Re <text> as a markup tag to represent comments my wife, Jill, suggested <note>.
I'ld go along with <note>.., but note (sic!) that other standards (eg that for XML Schema) seem to prefer the term <annotation>...
> 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
Speaking as the you quoted above on dates, the ISO standard seems fine to me (I also noted that the hyphens are optional), but as Devin notes an explicit <Day><Month><Year>.. split would completely remove any uncertainty in Americans who might assume a YYYYDDMM order, or suspicion outside America that the Yanks would use their preferred order anyway, as they usually do on their websites and often impose in their software.
>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?
Explicit <day><month><year> elements also remove's Mike's problem as to what to do with dates which can't be made as precise as the standard requires (not unlikely for historic data, albeit undesirable).
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