On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
Hi Bob,
On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
One of the things about microformats (in case you hadn't learned
how the game is played here :-) is to try to follow existing
conventions as much as possible. In this case, I started with
Mac OS X plists, and moved to XML Schema Datatypes:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#built-in-datatypes
Yes, it is somewhat complex, but it is a well-defined standard.
I'm certainly open to doing something simpler, but I'd want to
have some reasonably strong precedent, so it doesn't just become
personal taste. I do like the idea of defaulting to a generic,
high-precision 'number' class, especially since it is easy to
specialize using multiple classes.
I personally like the Mac OS X plist typing (number, data, etc.),
but I don't know if that's normative enough to drive a web standard.
Personally I think it should be the simplest thing that could
possibly work. Isn't that the idea behind microformats? If
someone wanted to play the XML game, they would...
Yes, I'm a big fan of TSTTW. :-) The problem is, the more one
deviates from standard practice the less certainty there is for the
result. Thus, a tension between doing something that I (or you)
perceive as simpler, and something that is easy to converge around.
The ideal, IMHO, would be if we could find a reasonable set of
datatypes that was simpler than XML Schema, but more neutral than
Mac OS X plist. Something like C would be ideal, but has no
datetime..
That's why we need a wiki page for, to start collecting the
standard types used in various languages and systems, to see if we
can find a common ground...
How about taking JavaScript names? Neutral enough.
string, number, boolean, date. data doesn't exist in JavaScript, but
that's a damn good name for it because it's the appropriate URL scheme.
-bob
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