On Aug 4, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Brian Suda wrote:
2008/8/4, Martin McEvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
A possible resolution is Duration can only be expressed in Minutes
and
Seconds or just Minutes eg:
--- i think what is being discussed is an optimization rather than an
encoding. Much like our FN nickname, FN == ORG optimizations, we are
documenting short-cuts. This does not impact the actual encoding which
stands true for all possibilities.
I've come to agree with others that "NLP" or "natural language
formats" (better name IMO) should be avoided as much as possible in
parsers. On the other hand, NLP or natural language formats could be
used instead at editing time: NLP could assist content writers in
microformatting semi-automatically their content at the time of
writing, and solve the problem of manually microformatting being sort
of a chore (see What we didn't do in [1]).
I suggest the following alternative to the current abbr/ISO option
(I'm saying alternative, because it would only be an additional option
to those who don't want to use the abbr/ISO option, which would still
be supported):
<span class="duration"><span class="minutes">3</span>:<span
class="seconds">42</span></span>
This approach would also work for datetime, and has already been
discussed.
I will document it on the wiki, unless there is a strong pushback for
a reason I haven't anticipated.
[1] http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/standards-based-corporate-web-development/
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