On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, at 15:48, Gould, James wrote: > More specifically now, about "2.3. Schedule" I am *strongly* > against using the format proposed for at least 2 reasons: > - crontab format is not a standard, and is ambiguous for various > points > - it encodes a format as a string which is itself in a formatted > structure since it is XML. "Hijacking" some free form space when you are > in formatted structure seems wrong to me and shows that the structure is > not correctly formatted because if it were you would not have to inject > a new format in a free text. > > Why not use ISO8601 Repeated Time Interval format? We are then still > gulty of the previous point but at least it is a standard. > Otherwise please amend the XML structure to break the content > currently in the crontab format.
Another way of encoding that, without judging myself if it is good/bad/better or worse than others but just to open horizons and see what is out there since I just stumbled upon it for unrelated reasons, is the systemd way, as described on https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html With this example: Thu,Fri 2012-*-1,5 11:12:13 The above refers to 11:12:13 of the first or fifth day of any month of the year 2012, but only if that day is a Thursday or Friday. HTH, -- Patrick Mevzek [email protected] _______________________________________________ regext mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext
