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Bug 2668 - R-185: Question about cardinality of calendar types
Summary: R-185: Question about cardinality of calendar types
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: XML Schema
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Datatypes: XSD Part 2 (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0 only
Hardware: PC Windows 3.1
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Ezell
QA Contact: XML Schema comments list
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Keywords: needsDrafting
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Reported: 2006-01-06 14:01 UTC by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Modified: 2012-12-04 00:53 UTC (History)
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Description C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 2006-01-06 14:01:34 UTC
In email to the comments list, Jeremy Carrol asks:

  The datatypes for recurring calendar events (specifically gMonthDay,
  gDay and gMonth) are all recorded in appendix A with:

    <hfp:hasProperty name="cardinality" value="countably infinite"/> 

  However it appears that there are at most 366 days in a year, and at
  most 59?  timezones or maybe 290000 if we take an extremist view of
  the possible timezones. (Alternatively, the lexical form is of
  finite length and comes from a finite vocabulary, hence there are
  finitely many different lexical forms).

  Is this an oversight? 

See:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2002OctDec/0068.html

Discussed at the 2003-11-20 telecon. Agreed to classify as error w/erratum. 
Agreed to change countably infinite to finite. Ashok to draft text.

Sandy Gao adds:

  And whenever we change cardinality to finite, we also need to change
  bounded to "true".

This bug report is for version 1.0 only; bug 2179 is the 1.1 twin.