Re: Standards checkers for XSLT

Using a common and standard convention for representing dates helps significantly when manipulating date fields.

The standard format is CCYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+Z

Example:
2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00

With this representation it's easier and manageable to sort date fields because it's a sortable value unlike a date represented in say MM/DD/YYYY format.

While displaying dates the XPath2.0 format-date function can be used to display the date in a particular locale.

There might be other benefits like add and subtract dates, but I haven't refered these functions.

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Kamal Bhatt