Re: String match

Peter Flynn writes:
 > >                 <start>
 > >                       <day>12</day>
 > >                       <month>January</month>
 > >                       <year>2002</year>
 > >                 </start>
 > 
 > You may find it easier to work with numeric dates if you want to sort
 > them or otherwise discriminate between them (eg months). The ISO date
 > format is dd-mm-yyyyThh:mm:ss.ss (capital T in the middle) which will
 > sort easily.

ISO format has the year first so that a "dictionary" sort will also
sort chronologically (for dates with the same timezone),
e.g. "2002-02-05" for 5 February, 2002.


 > 
 > <eventRecord start="05-02-2002T" end="14-02-2002T">
 >   <title>Bla bla</title>
 > </eventsCalendar>
 > 
 > (BTW Does anyone know if truncated ISO dates are valid, or must they
 > be padded with a [possibly misleading] "...00:00:00.00" when no time
 > is specified?)
 > 
 > > Hence a mechanism to check that: If the 'start month' is the same -
 > > to apply eventRecord template but as soon as the 'start month'
 > > differs then to apply ViewEvents template
 > 
 > You can byte-slice the string values of attribute CDATA using
 > the substring-before and substring-after functions.
 > 
 > ///Peter
 > 
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 > 
 > 


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