xs:gMonth build in data-type

[Lord0]

Hi there,

Am I correct when I say that "--12" is a valid value for an xs:gMonth
data-type in a schema but "12" is not?

Similarly for an xs:gDay, "---30" is a valid value but "30" is not?

This seems bizarre. Is there a more suitable datatype for representing
days, months etc? I hoped I would be able to, in my schema do something
like:

<xs:element name="DAY" type="xs:gDay"/>
<xs:element name="MONTH" type="xs:gMonth"/>

and the following would be valid:

<DAY>30</DAY>
<MONTH>12</MONTH>

I have read http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#built-in-datatypes and it
does state, for example:

"The lexical representation for gDay is the left truncated lexical
representation for date: ---DD".

This seems counterintuitive (to the layman at least)

Lord0

[Joseph Kesselman]

Lord0 wrote:

This seems bizarre. Is there a more suitable datatype for representing
days, months etc?

Integer, limited to appropriate 1-to-whatever range?

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

[Lord0]

Integer, limited to appropriate 1-to-whatever range?

Yeah thats what I decided but I would've expected a month date-type to
itself be an integer in the range 1-12 (or maybe 0-11) not "--01" to
"--12".

*sigh*