Subject: RE: [xsl] sorting date prob From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:40:06 +0100 |
> Yes. It is correct to be in the format yymmdd, because that > is the ISO > standard. And yes, everyone does not care about standards, > but I have to. If you care about standards then I think you need to be a little more precise. ISO 8601:2000 recognizes yymmdd as a "truncated representation" of a date, and allows its use only "by mutual agreement of the partners in information interchange". The standard defines two formats for the "complete representation" of a "calendar date", namely the "basic format" yyyymmdd, and the "extended format" yyyy-mm-dd. In XML documents, the extended format is preferable, because it is the one that XML Schema has adopted. But the basic format can be useful on occasions because it allows "<" and ">" comparisons in XPath 1.0 expressions, treating the date as a number. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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