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On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 23:41 Europe/Rome, Robert Koberg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is probably a minor and implementation detail but I when I see the
> examples of datatypes being giving I was wondering if you were taking 
> into
> consideration of XML Schema datatypes (and therefore RNG datatypes, 
> though I
> don't understand the desire of clearly object oriented-type people 
> using
> RNG). Some of the examples I have seen do not conform to the structures
> allowed.
>
> For example, unique IDs cannot start with a number, but all examples 
> of IDs
> have been strictly numerical. Also the date below:
>
> http://host/path/id!date=20031015
>
> does not conform to ISO 8601.

hmmm, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html, says

<quote>
part from the recommended primary standard notation YYYY-MM-DD, ISO 
8601 also specifies a number of alternative formats for use in 
applications with special requirements. All of these alternatives can 
easily and automatically be distinguished from each other:

The hyphens can be omitted if compactness of the representation is more 
important than human readability, for example as in

19950204
</quote>

> Am I just being to nit-picky or is this something that simply has no 
> value
> here?

but I agree: if we can, reusing datatypes from other standards is a 
good thing (might well give us code to reuse for parsing already 
implemented in other projects!)

--
Stefano.