> In practice I would always recommend ISO 8601 representation for dates. This
> is better than using a Julian day number because it is more meaningful to
> humans. The parsing of this is so trivial that using XML tagging would not
> add value, either for the human reader or the machine recipient.
I assume you mean a simple subset of 8601 rather than the whole
representation standard. My choosing an 8601 date as an example for
LocalMarkupFilter was meant for simplicity and ease of understanding,
not as a practical use case.
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