A sample grammar for ISO 8601 #76
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| If a datetime includes a specific offset from UTC, the sign is only included on the hour if its negative. |
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This seems like a mistake to me.
If I want to round-trip the XML back into an ISO 8601 (or similar) string, I need to have something like if (substring( offset-hour, 1, 1 ) eq '-') then '-' else '+'. While that is not hard, it seems unnecessary. My instinct is to put a @direction on <utc-offset> (with value + or -, because in iXML we can’t convert that to east or west).
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Fair enough. I added a note about that specifically to draw attention to the choice to see what others thought. I'm not sure I'd want to specify east or west to be honest, as I'm not sure I'd be able to guess which one was + and which one was - 😆
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Ok, I've pushed an update that uses @direction on the offset-hour and makes it explicitly + or - instead of making the hour value signed.
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Excellent.
Heh-heh. I was hoping for east and west precisely to make me look it up every time, so I would finally learn it!
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| Constructed by Norm Tovey-Walsh, April 2022. | ||
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| There are two grammars in this directory: |
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Doesn’t this scream for some sort of <ix:include> mechanism?
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