XML schema ENGINE="xs:date"

[Karen Newlove]

When useing a schema that has date elements specified as ENGINE=”xs:date” which format will CL expect it to be?

The schema reference for xs is xmlns:xs=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema“.

When having a date element with timezone like 2011-05-33+02:00 CL put the following error in the err log:

[xlt :xlat:ERR /0:meddis_pas_xlate:05/24/2011 13:44:59] [0.0.69894023] Xlate ‘XDIS20toMEDDIS.xlt’ failed: Input validation errors: Error generated during parsing. – Element ‘Date’ got Datatype error, Type:SchemaDateTimeException, Message:TimeZone is expected ! ‘2011-05-13?02?00’ . – Line 1, Col 339

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[Levy Lazarre]

Karen,

It appears that the parser is trying to read an ISO 8601 point-in-time specification in the following format:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZ (where TZ is the time zone designator)

Since your date string did not provide hours and minutes (hh:mm), the parser grabbed the time zone designator (+02:00) as the hours, minutes and then complained that the time zone was missing!

If Tcl is the parser, you have a problem.

Even if you managed to add the time as 00:00, it still wouldn’t work because the string would not be scanable by the ‘clock’ command in Tcl 8.4 (Cloverleaf).

In Tcl 8.5, the ‘clock scan’ command has a new ‘-format’ option that would allow you to do:

set date “2011-05-13 +02:00”

set s [clock scan $date -format {%Y-%m-%d %Z}]

puts $s

Since this option is not available in Tcl 8.4, I believe that the best way to resolve your issue is to drop the time zone (+02:00) in your dates, if it is

acceptable in your situation.

[Karen Newlove]

Levy,

Thanks for your reply and suggestion.

😀

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