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<br><div><div>On 11 Mar 2009, at 04:46, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This is already a solved problem in the Text Encoding Intiative (TEI). [ ... ] <date calendar="Julian" value="1732-02-22">Feb. 11, 1731.</date> [ ... ] We can't change the author's original written dates, but it would be useful to normalise documents using the Julian calendar to proleptic Gregorian dates.</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Yes, the draft needs to clear up the (mis)understanding that <time> requires authors to place Gregorian dates in the original.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If the calendaric meta information should be available to human consumers, then then @title seems like a better place. The draft could recommend how to use @title for <time>.</font></p> </blockquote></div><div><br></div>How about something like <time calendar="Julian" value="1732-02-22" title="22 February 1732">Feb. 11 1731</time>, where title and calendar are optional? <div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Jim</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Jim O'Donnell</div><div><a href="mailto:jim@eatyourgreens.org.uk">jim@eatyourgreens.org.uk</a></div><div><a href="http://eatyourgreens.org.uk">http://eatyourgreens.org.uk</a></div><div><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/eatyourgreens">http://flickr.com/photos/eatyourgreens</a></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/pekingspring">http://twitter.com/pekingspring</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>