This would be acceptable:
<span class="duration"><span class="seconds">3</span> seconds</span>
Or if we wanted to use the hMeasurement approach:
<span class="duration" title="3s">three seconds</span>
<span class="duration" title="2min 3s">two minutes, three
seconds</span>
<span class="duration" title="2y 35h">two years, 35 hours</span>
<span class="duration" title="3s">three seconds</span>
this kind of thing would:
1. add complexity to parsers
2. require people to be very precise in the choice of allowed strings ...
eg: "year" or "y" , "second" or "seconds" otherwise dates and times may
very quickly degenerate into something not much better than garbled freeform
text dates.
It would also mean a lot more rules for authors to remember which could
result in a lot of invalid markup being published.
If dates/times are no longer machine-readable I would see no longer see much
practical use for any of this!
I am very wary of straying too far from ISO for dates and times
(or at least something that can easily be parsed by
javascript/php/perl/ruby/whatever built-in date functions or commonly used
date libraries)
keep it simple !
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