I think it would be quite easy to define a library of functions that
package the date formatting facilities in this way, but I don't think
there's any need to put this in the core language. If you think there
are inadequacies in the format-date() facilities provided in the latest
(12 Nov) XSLT 2.0 working draft, or if you can suggest specific
improvements, then the place to send them is public-qt-comments@xxxxxxx

Michael Kay

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> Richard Zschech
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> Subject:  format-dateTime localised picture parameters 
> long medium short
> 
> 
> |Would it be posible to define special picture parameters for the date
> and time formatting methods such as "long" "medium" "short". The XSL 
> processor can use this in combination with the language and country 
> parameters to produce a localized format for a particular locale.
> 
> An example of this is the java class 
> java.util.text.DateFormat which can 
> produce DateFormats based on the styles DateFormat.LONG,|| 
> DateFormat.||MEDIUM,|| DateFormat.||SHORT and a 
> java.util.Locale which 
> can be constructed from the language and country.
> 
> Another example is C#'s String.Format with D,d,T,t,F,f for long and 
> short date, time, date and time.
> 
> Another example is in vb with DateFormat Enumeration's ||vbLongDate, 
> ||vbShortDate, ||vbLongTime and ||vbShortTime.
> 
> This will allow authors of style sheets to format dates and 
> times based 
> on a users preferred formats and not have to hard code formats in 
> stylesheets.
> 
> A similar thing could be done with number formats.
> |
> 
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