Dear all, thanks for the feedback. I now better understand that the date implementation in Citeproc/CSL JSON was a pragmatic decision, and that EDTF (which is close enough to ISO 8601) would be a good alternative. It really comes down to use cases, implementations and tests. For the comparison of EDTF vs. ISO 8601 I will take a closer look at EDTF, in particular who is using this format in the wild.
Aurimas, one problem with dates in JSON is that it they are not a native data format, in contrast to strings, numbers, booleans, etc. You can of course define dates in your own JSON spec, but an ISO 8601 string is a reasonable alternative commonly found in JSON. Best, Martin > Am 09.06.2015 um 06:41 schrieb Aurimas Vinckevicius <aurimas....@gmail.com>: > > If I understand correctly, we're talking about the CSL JSON format here, > correct? If so, I don't think it makes a lot of sense semantically to supply > dates as a complex string within the JSON format. JSON gives you all the > flexibility you need to supply date ranges, approximate dates, date-times, > time zones, whatever else you want to support. It's just a matter of adding > some more clearly defined and directly accessible properties. Am I missing > something here? > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <bdar...@gmail.com > <mailto:bdar...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I think what you see in citeproc-js is shaped by practical decisions Zotero > made. As in, was better to be loose with the expectations here. > > But I've always favored defining CSL dates as EDTF. Not sure what the > implementers would think about that though, as a requirement. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
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