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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 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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