On 11 Mar 2009, at 04:46, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
This is already a solved problem in the Text Encoding Intiative
(TEI). [ ... ] <date calendar="Julian" value="1732-02-22">Feb. 11,
1731.</date> [ ... ] We can't change the author's original written
dates, but it would be useful to normalise documents using the
Julian calendar to proleptic Gregorian dates.
Yes, the draft needs to clear up the (mis)understanding that <time>
requires authors to place Gregorian dates in the original.
If the calendaric meta information should be available to human
consumers, then then @title seems like a better place. The draft
could recommend how to use @title for <time>.
How about something like <time calendar="Julian" value="1732-02-22"
title="22 February 1732">Feb. 11 1731</time>, where title and
calendar are optional?
Regards
Jim
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