RE: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92

["Mike Cannon-Brookes" <mike@bookmarkbox.com>]

As far as I know there is no mention of dates / times that I've come across
in the spec / working with XSLT.

As I said we 'extend and embrace' RSS internally here with a <time> field
that has a millisecond value in it, which is easily sortable as an integer
using pure XSLT.

The only solution I can see (if XSLT is cared enough about) is to use a
format that sorts itself alphanumerically eg YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm GMT (all
integers) .

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Bone [mailto:jbone@jump.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:25 PM
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92
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> Lurker weighing in here...
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> I agree with Dan that ISO8601 is the preferred format for dates, but Mike
> brings up a good point re: XSLT.  A quick grep of the XSLT 1.0
> spec seems to
> reveal that it doesn't speak to datetime value transformations at all;
> without knowing more about XSLT myself, it's difficult to say
> whether or not
> this poses a problem in using XSLT to process other XML documents that use
> ISO8601.  It's possible that XSLT "inherits" something in the way
> of managing
> datetimes from some other W3C recommendation that I'm not aware of, but
> without a more comprehensive read of the XSLT recommendation (and
> it's been
> months since I looked at it before tonight) it's hard to say.
> Note however
> that W3C has a separate NOTE [1] out discussing ISO8601.  Standard W3C
> disclaimer notwithstanding, the issue of whether this should be
> interpreted
> as any sort of endorsement is an open question. [2]  Note that this whole
> area is (was?) controversial enough that at some point there was
> a W3C-hosted
> mailing list about the discussion. [3]
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> Mike, since you raised the question:  what's the answer?
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> :-)
>
> jb
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
> [2] http://www.w3.org/Submission/1997/14/Comment.html
> [3] mailto:datetime-comments@w3.org
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