RE: Re: What is the best way to cast integer to string

Andrew said:
> How does your suggestion solve the kind of issues arising with
> 
> <mySillyDate>Fred</mySillyDate>
> 
> and
> 
> <myNotQuiteSoSillyDate>25th December 2010</myNotQuiteSoSillyDate>

GIGO? What's new.

> You are proposing that XSLT stylesheet authors continue to 
> pfaff around 
> with multiple string-related functions to manipulate dates 
> .... ? Oops I 
> mean strings that happen to look like dates. :)

If you really want that functionality, I'd suggest moving
to xquery. For me its not required.



> 
> So, correct me if I am misunderstanding you here, you are 
> saying you will 
> forego the date / time / duration functions in XPath 2.0 / 
> XSLT 2.0 if it 
> means you having to learn even a very little about W3C XML Schema?

If XSD ever gets off the ground maybe.
Today I simply don't need it and don't want XSLT with the XSD albatross
round its neck.

There are some really good additions in xslt 2. Many of them
requested on this list.

There's a whole host of other stuff that I've never seen mentioned on
this list. 

regards DaveP.

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