Re: [xml] ISO 8601 date support?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Erik F. Andersen wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I need to convert a date to the format specified in http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime and I wonder if 
> there is a set of functions (in LibXML2) to do this?
  Note that it is a W3C NOTE, i.e. something without any authoritative
status, and issued without peer review or the usual W3C process. A NOTE from
9 years ago is unlikely to be a good place for advices, either it has been 
picked up in a more recent spec or you should be very cautious about it.

> The TZD (time zone designator) must be calculated with respect to daylight savings for the particular date 
> in the current time-zone (Denmark in my case).
>
> I also need a function to do the opposite calculation.
>
> I looked through LibXML but was unable to find such a function, but maby I missed something? I found some 
> date functions in LibEXSLT but nothing that fits my needs...

  the date and time support in libxml2 is really based on the need for the
support of XML Schemas part 2 Datatypes, if it doesn't intersect with
what you are looking for, then I don't think libxml2 should really be the
place to hold this kind of functions, it's really about XML (or it should).

Daniel

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