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John Cowan <cowan@l...> writes: > <?map map1 ":" colon?> > <?map map1 "T" time?> > <?map map1 "-" dash?> > <?map map1 "." dot?> > <?apply-map map1 date?> > ... > <date>1998-04-05T15:22:23.24</date> > the application would receive the SAX or DOM equivalent of: > <date>1998<dash/>04<dash/>05<time/> > 15<colon/>22<colon/>23<dot/>24</date> I like this, and I guess it's revealing that I didn't know you could do things like that. But who would I be to let lack of experience and knowledge be inhibiting factors? :-) However, this doesn't begin to touch all the issues adressed previously in the discussion, in particular it does not let the parser catch illegal content in <date>s (like e.g. regexp constraints could), nor does it solve locale problems (which I get the impression the data type advocates want to) It's still a neat trick, though. ~kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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