RE: [xsl] Re: What is the best way to cast integer to string in X SLT2?

[Andrew Watt <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:29 12/05/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> I'd like to see that on the xsl:stylesheet element.
>   typing="no"
> then we could forget the types all together,
> as some people seem to think is possible [see xml-dev archive], yet this
> example
> shows isn't.

Dave,

I don't think it is quite as simple as that. Nor, if I am correct, can it be.

Suppose you have this:

<mySillyDate>Fred</mySillyDate>

then it isn't realistic to expect the date formatting functionality to 
work, is it?

Nor will this work with the date functions:

<myNotQuiteSoSillyDate>25th December 2010</myNotQuiteSoSillyDate>

So, at a minimum, people who want to manipulate dates as dates (rather than 
as strings) will need to get up to speed with the lexical space (lovely 
term <grin/>) of the date and duration types, even if correct lexical forms 
can be automatically cast to the correct type.

I don't see any way round that, other than avoiding using the date and 
duration functions of XPath 2.0.

Andrew Watt



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