Re: [Xsltforms-support] Date on the database and on the browser

[Elias M. <eli...@gm...>]

Hi Alain.

The data types are defined as xsd:date and the date picker shows fine.  I
know the format of the date that shows in the browser is controlled by the
local language config file (in my case config_en_us.xsl).  All works fine
and the date is written as YYYY-MM-DD in the XML.  My problem is that the
schema I'm using to validate the XML generated expects the date in the
format "YYYYMMDD".  I tried to modify config.xsl but it did not work.  I
need to be able to tell XSLTForms to write the date in the YYYYMMDD format,
not the default YYYY-MM-DD.

Thanks.
Elias


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Alain Couthures <
ala...@ag...> wrote:

> Hello Elias,
>
> There are clearly may ways to serialize a date, not only as a string but
> also as a number (number of time units since a specific date).
>
> The date picker in XSLTForms is rendered for the xsd:date type but, to
> render it for other data types, it should be associated to a parent of it
> (to be defined). Then, new date types could be defined with a regular
> expression having named capture for parsing/serializing.
>
> All of this is not yet implemented (but should not require too much
> work...) and using XSLT 1.0 stylesheets before/after submission is
> currently the unique possibility.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Alain
>
> Le 05/04/2013 18:32, Elias Mazur a écrit :
>
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I need to have the XForms display the date as "MM/dd/yyyy" but need to
>> have it written to the XML as "yyyyMMdd".  I know of the format.date on the
>> config.xsl, but how can I configure to have it so the value displayed is
>> MMdd/yyyy and the internal value that is held in the instance is "yyyyMMdd"
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Elias
>>
>>
>