Josh Sharpe wrote:
> Are these attributes deprecated? I have not seen them in any of the
> examples that I have checked and I have not seen any results from adding
> them. Could someone give me a better description of them other than
> "for imprecise beginnings..." and how to use them?
>
Take a look at the JFK example
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.html
and scroll to 17:30. You should find the event "Bullet 399 handed to SS
Chief Rowley".
Search for the same event in the xml file
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.xml
It has both "start" and "end".
An event with only "start" and "end" is an instantaneous event with an
ambiguous time. An event with "start" and "end" and isDuration="true" is
a duration event that has a precise beginning time and a precise ending
time.
If you want an event spans a duration whose beginning and ending are
ambiguous, you can use something like this:
<event title="planned vacation"
start="2007-10-01"
latestStart="2007-10-03"
earliestEnd="2007-10-29"
end="2007-10-31">...</event>
which means that the planned vacation can start any time between October
1 - 3 and end any time between October 29 - 31.
David
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