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Re: [ #456174 ] Req: a <YearRange> within <copyright>
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:13:12AM -0700, M. Wroth wrote:
> But for ordinary use, I don't see a need for explicit markup of
> the various combinations --- when the occasion has come up, I've used
> <year>1996, 1998, 1999, 2000</year>
Sure, it works. But it probably creates more pain when you need to
extract, say, the 1st year in such a list - you have to add string
processing to element addressing.
Finally, Norm's solution seems to address most needs.
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