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From: Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI <k-kawa@b...> > It seems to me that WG gave up producing acceptable types (not only > hierarchy but types themselves) for dates and times. Yes and no. We decided that it was better to provided limited times with restrictions that could be lifted later (i.e. for XML Schemas 1.1) rather than to have a detailed design now. Another problem with the dates and times was the issue of internationalization: the Gregorian calendar is certainly not the only important calendar in use. (As I know, having spent half yesterday trying to convert some Chinese dates.) For example, being able to say "not in Ramadan" is useful. Another option was indeed to drop dates and times entirely from this version, but a limited version was better. Another difficulty with dates and times is that the WG wanted to support ISO 8601 and SQL, but some people think ISO 8601 gets dates wrong and some of SQL's date and times are not widely implemented, which may be a sign of a problem there too. (The editors of those standards were involved in discussions too, by the way.) > Actually, I've posted more than 20 comments to www-xml-schema-comments@w... > but more than half are unanswered at all. It sure is a good way to >discourage people from sending comments. That is not good, and I apologise. > I'm not familiar with W3C process, but is WG allowed to ignore public > reviews? I understand that the WG is very busy and obviously it is > impossible to answer *all* of the comments, but how can they ignore > comments like first two ? I think a WG is not absolutely required to answer every comment, but they certainly need to show that there is some process or reasonable effort to answer comments. Responding to public comments added at least 6 months to the process, which I believe shows that there was a process and a genuine attempt. The comments were grouped and prioritized. If your comment was not added to the list, it was probably a sign that the general issue of dates and times were already under discussion, or that the problems you had mentioned had been raised by other s and acknowledged within the working group. People who sent their comments as part of a general thread of discussion on an issue probably did not get an acknowledgement: probably the initial or best statement of the problem was used. Comments that did not contain "new information" it were not discussed much: "new information" meant that the comments gave points that the WG was already aware of. Cheers Rick Jelliffe (Not speaking officially for the WG)
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