• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:20:12 -0500

The xsd:year type in the W3C XML schema language represents a year 
such as 1999, 2000, or 2001. Three questions:

1. Can it handle years in the first millenium  like 987? 234? 62? or 
6? Can I specify these with the minimum number of digits logically 
required? Or do I have to write 0987, 0062, and 0006?

2. How is a year before 1. C.E. represented? For example how would I 
specify the year when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon? -49?

3. What about years in the far future like 10000? 100000? 1000000?

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