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Subject: Re: [David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>] Request for Enhancement -DATEElement
Norman Walsh wrote: > > / Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com> was heard to say: > | Since I'm not supposed to send mail directly to the tc, I'll bug you. > > Oh, please, post to the TC list, Eduardo :-) Thank you, I will.... > > | What is this supposed to solve that a stylesheet can't? > > Stylesheets aren't particularly good at dealing with text strings. > And dates really are structured values. > > What should a stylesheet do with <date>20001211</date>, > <date>11 Dec 2000</date>, <date>11/12/2000</date>, > <date>12/11/2000</date>, and <date>2000-12-11</date>? If by the above, you mean all those variations in the same set of documents, I'd have to ask what are all those variations doing in the same set of documents... Otherwise, I don't think it would be too hard to write stylesheets to deal with them. > > Be seeing you, > norm > > -- > Norman.Walsh@East.Sun.COM | It is better to waste one's youth than to > XML Technology Center | do nothing with it at all.--Georges > Sun Microsystems, Inc. | Courteline -- Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail: eduardo@eng.Sun.COM XML Technology Center | Phone: (650) 786-5498 Sun Microsystems Inc. | fax: (650) 786-5727
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