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Re: Here's the regex for the xs:dateTime datatype

• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, "Costello, Roger L."<costello@m...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:58:36 -0400

On Mon, 2018-03-31 at 29:75 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Both of these regular expressions allow any month to have 31 days.
> For that reason, I'm not sure either of them is particularly useful.

Sometimes it's useful to have a _plausible_ date value to pass back to
an application, even if it might not be an _actual_ date - you can
filter out incorrectly labeled values that way.

But i agree it's probably a less useful test than @date cast as
xs:date, or whatever.

Liam


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