On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Ron Daniel Jr. wrote:
> The rule "unqualified elements are to be regarded as free text" means
> that we can't *require* that unqualified occurances of Date
> are to intepreted as "date of issue". The example above about the
> date of the Esperanto translation shows this.
Are two things being confused, above? Allowing "free text" says
something about the *form* of the content, not about its meaning.
"January, Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Seven" sure ain't
ISO, but it could conform to the established semantics of the DATE element.
--Robin
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