My comments on DR 10-0001

[Jirka Kosek]

Norbert Bollow wrote:

> I would suggest that the text from the BRM on ISO-8601 format dates
> should anyway be made much more precise anyway with regard to the
> specific subset of the set of ISO-8601 formats that is allowed,

There is undergoing action item by Chris and Gareth on this issue.

> so
> why not at that time also add text that allows, as a special exception,
> the string "1900-02-29" for representing a value that occurs in some
> existing (buggy) documents?

Because such value is not conforming nor to ISO8601, neither to xs:date
datatype.

Of course you can define type as union of xs:date and string with only
permitted value "1900-02-29", but no thanks, this would be really evil.

				Jirka

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