On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Michael Hale <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hale.michael.jr@live.com" target="_blank">hale.michael.jr@live.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



<div><div dir="ltr">Yes, I think once qualifiers are enabled you would just have something like:<div>...</div><div>Property(head of local government)</div><div>    ...</div><div>    Value(Elizabeth I) - Qualifier(&quot;1558-1603&quot;) - Sources()</div>
<div>    Value(James VI and I) - Qualifier(&quot;1603-1625&quot;) - Sources()</div><div>    ...</div><div>...<br><br>There was a discussion about whether qualifiers should have specific datatypes other than just string, but I think we should only do that if needed.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Clearly the example that you gave is one where non-string datatypes are critically important.  If you don&#39;t know that they&#39;re dates, you have no way of telling when they were in those roles.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tom </div></div>