Any reason why we can't suggest this addition upstream into xerces?

On 24 February 2015 at 10:44, Andy Seaborne (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andy Seaborne created JENA-886:
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>              Summary: Add xsd datatype
>                  Key: JENA-886
>                  URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-886
>              Project: Apache Jena
>           Issue Type: Improvement
>           Components: Datatypes
>     Affects Versions: Jena 2.12.1
>             Reporter: Andy Seaborne
>             Assignee: Andy Seaborne
>             Priority: Minor
>
>
> There are some new XSD datatypes not covered by Jena's datatype system.
>
> * xsd:dateTimeStamp
> * xsd:yearMonthDuration
> * xsd:dayTimeDuration
>
> They are all derived types.  While Xerces does not directly support them 
> (they are in XSD 1.1 final, Xerces 2.11.0 only goes as far as drafts of 1.1), 
> they can be supported easily by inherining from the base type and fixing the 
> URI and the parsing.  Their value is one of the existing value types and they 
> can be treated via syntactic restrictions on the lexical form.
>
> ARQ already handles these types as values to a limited extent.  Putting them 
> into Jena core datatypes woul dunify the handling.
>
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