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Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:58:08 -0700
From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: thredds-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: xsd:dateTime
dates have to have the "T" in it, for the W3C profile of ISO 8601
the first 3 date elements validate, the last does not
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<test xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="C:\temp\xml\testDate.xsd">
<date value="1997-07-16T19:20:30Z"/>
<date value="1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00"/>
<date value="1997-07-16T19:20:30"/>
<date value="1997-07-16 19:20:30+01:00"/>
</test>
under this schema:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--W3C Schema generated by XMLSPY v5 rel. 2 U (http://www.xmlspy.com)-->
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
elementFormDefault="qualified">
<xs:element name="date">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="value" type="xs:dateTime" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="test">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element ref="date" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
so we will standardize on that. You should reference this document in
any documentation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
this section of catalog spec will be updated:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/catalog/InvCatalogSpec.html#dateType
