More Questions About Date

["Stewart, Gary" <Ga...@luht.scot.nhs.uk>]

Sorry to bother people I'm still getting up to speed with all this.

I've been trying to use CForms with an existing application and I've got stuck in a few areas. I'm using the XML Binding stuff to create an XML document to be sent to another server. The first problem I've come across is that I have an XML document returned in the format

<blah>
 <bar xsi:nil="true" />
 <foo>Hi there!</foo>
</blah>

where bar is a date type. As it is empty it fails. Is there a way to make the binding accept an empty value? 

I then figured I can strip any nil values from the document leaving just the filled in values left. However the output document looks something like:

<blah>
 <foo>Hi there!</foo>
 <bar>Fri Jan 12 00:03:00 GMT 1973</bar>
</blah>

with the two issues that:

1, The bound "bar" now is the last element which might be a problem with some schema. This wouldn't be a problem if there is a solution to the problem above though.
2, The format is a long datetime format. Is there a way of just getting the ISO date type? At the moment I'm just returning the DOM tree as it is in JXPath so presumably that's the Java localisation. I looked at the datatype documentation but couldn't find a way of doing a conversion on the submit.

Help with any of these would be most appreciated.

Many thanks,

Gary




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