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<br><div><div>On 13 Mar 2009, at 10:33, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This is already a solved problem in the Text Encoding Intiative<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(TEI).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The value of a date/time is encoded in the Gregorian calendar,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">ISO8601. The calendar attribute is used to indicate the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>calendar of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the original, written date enclosed in the tags.</font></p> </blockquote></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">I'm not sure why the original calendar would need to be indicated in the</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">'calendar' attribute. It does not matter for the 'value' or software in</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">general, if I've understood correctly. If the 'value' is always in</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Proleptic Gregorian calendar, it's all the software needs to know.</font></p> </blockquote></div><div><br></div>Hello, the usual use of TEI is encoding historical papers for digital preservation eg. digitising large archives of correspondence or literature. The calendar attribute exists to preserve semantic information in the digital version of a paper document. I was interested to know whether there was value in preserving such information in HTML also, since digital versions of historic documents are published on the web as HTML.<div><br></div><div>I understand, though, that HTML should not become a grab bag of features from other SGML or XML vocabularies so I wouldn't push for a calendar attribute on <time> if it isn't generally useful or if I'm the only person that wants it.</div><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><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>