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Part 2: Datatypes frequently defines the lexical representation of one type as a "truncation" of that of another, without ever defining what is meant by this term. Sometimes it seems to have the conventional meaning of omitting characters from one end of a string, as in: The lexical representation for gYear is the reduced (right truncated) lexical representation for dateTime: CCYY. [section 3.2.11.1] Other times the omitted characters are replaced by other characters, as in: The lexical representation for gDay is the left truncated lexical representation for date: ---DD . [section 3.2.13.1] It's not difficult to understand what is meant, but the document overall aspires to (and for the most part handily achieves) a higher standard of precision. For consistency, I'd like to see the term defined in 1.1. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2002OctDec/0128.html
Discussed at the 2003-11-21 telecon. Classified as a requirement for 1.1; Ashok to add to requirements doc. (RQ-148)