convertDate error 'Empty input date'

[Luca]

sx:convertDate generates a "Empty input date" error when the date value is null. Sometimes however this value is optional in the input data file and an empty value has to be considered a valid value.
I suggest to add a "nullAllowed" (or whatever you like) attribute to the convertDate and convertDateTime elements to quietly ignore empty values.

luca buraggi

[Daniel Parker]

I agree, I'll change the default to allow empty values.  It should be up to the schema or other validation to validate empty values.

-- Daniel

[Daniel Parker]

I've made this change in 0.8.0.1.  We'll possibly add a null allowed flag to this (and other) elements in the future, but the default will generally be true.

-- Daniel