On 3/8/07, Bob Jonkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
These are arbitrary dates, NOT related to the publishing date of the document
it appears in,
not related to any resources such as a software release. I simply want dates
occuring within
prose to be recognized as machine-readable dates. This is for both for screen
readers and
disabiguation of dates such as 3/2/2006 or 02-03-06. It's also useful when
quoting text with
poorly formatted dates, without altering the presentation of the original
quote, eg.
The Constitution of <abbr title="1776-07-04">4/7/76</abbr>
Andy Mabbett suggested a class of "dtstamp" which comes closer to what I
intend, but the
iCalendar property DTSTAMP is specifically meant to indicate when an iCalendar
object was
created, which is not the case here.
Following the design pattern for dates, I think we need a semantic classname
such as
"datetime" which James Craig pointed out is an attribute for <ins> and <del>
<abbr class="datetime" title="2006-03-02">March 2, 2006</abbr>
Does such a classname for an arbitrary date/time already exist?
I've always had trouble with the idea of using <abbr> to mark up dates
because semantically, it isn't expressing an abbreviation of any sort.
It's simply a different form of the same date. I also have a hard time
with the idea of using <ins> and <del> because their semantic meaning
is to express content that's been changed[1].
I really think that what's needed, in line with what you're asking, is
a class name that's canonized as a microformat along these lines:
<span class="datetime iso" title="2006-07-02">July 2, 2006</span>
In this case, the title serves to provide the accurate datetime data
while the content within the tags can be tailored to the author's
preference and country/language while still being machine readable.
1- http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.4
Cheers,
A.
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