[uf-dev] Human and machine readable data format

[Glenn Jones]

On 29 Jun 2008, Norm wrote:
>That is an internationalisation no-no. It's not longer "human  
>readable" if the language is question demands a different order and  
>you break it for the sake of easier machine parsing.

That's only an example for English. At the bottom of the page

http://ufxtract.com/experimental/hm-readable-date.htm

you will find a language descriptions which will be need to configure
parser's. There is a pattern property which allow for different orders.
The Simplified Chinese data format has a different order to the others. 

The idea is that the parsers read the lang attribute on the abbr and
applies the correct language description. It will be a pain to build up
all the international descriptions needed, but it's the only way if we
wish to have human readable date's that can be parsed by machines.

Glenn  





-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:microformats-dev-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Norman Francis
Sent: 30 June 2008 09:58
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Subject: Re: [uf-dev] Human and machine readable data format

On 29 Jun 2008, at 15:17, Glenn Jones wrote:
> <http://ufxtract.com/experimental/hm-readable-date.htm>


Glenn, in this page you state:

> MUST format must follow the pattern order i.e.in English  date,  
> month year, time, timezone

That is an internationalisation no-no. It's not longer "human  
readable" if the language is question demands a different order and  
you break it for the sake of easier machine parsing.

-- Norm.

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