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XML Schema date syntax

• From: Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:53:23 +0100

I have recently come across a case where one wants to make an XML
Schema for the interchange syntax for an existing standard based on
relational databases.

This existing standard already has a lexical representation for its
dates, of the form CCYYMMDD. The question is, how can one make an XML
Schema data type for dates that have this lexical representation?

I see that XML Schema allows dates to have a pattern constraining
facet, the question is just how this will be interpreted by tools.
If the pattern were to be defined as 

 '[12][0-9][0-9][0-9][01][0-9][0-3][0-9]'

what would this mean? Would tools accept it?

--Lars M.

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