Ray said (very recently) he's working on it. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Jakob Voss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > I must admit that I have not followed the discussion the last month, so > I may have missed something. The current draft at > http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/spec.html looks better than a few > month ago, thanks to all who contributed in improving the planned > standard. > > However, in the current form the draft is just a list of examples with > some description. Some of us already asked for a formal specification in > Backus-Naur-Form or about an implementation, but it looks like the > current standardization process is going on detached from technical > feasability (?). I fear that without a formal specification and some > implementation, the format will end up as one-way data hole or as > incomplete boilerplate of faulty applications. > > I started to write a parser, based on a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) > - the most difficult part seem to be the gaps and inconsistencies in the > current draft. Maybe this project is of use for anyone interested to dig > deeper: https://github.com/nichtich/lua-edtf I stopped the work after a > got the basic framework because my main interest is not EDTF. If you > don't like Lua or PEG, you can also use another formalism, but EDTF > needs a formal definition or you cannot call it a "standard" or > "specification" at all. > > > > Jakob Voss > > > -- > Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) > Digitale Bibliothek - Jakob Voß > Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 > 37073 Goettingen - Germany > +49 (0)551 39-10242 > http://www.gbv.de > [log in to unmask] >