> <?map map1 ":" colon?>
> <?map map1 "T" time?>
> <?map map1 "-" dash?>
> <?map map1 "." dot?>
> <?apply-map map1 date?>
> ...
> <date>1998-04-05T15:22:23.24</date>
> the application would receive the SAX or DOM equivalent of:
> <date>1998<dash/>04<dash/>05<time/>
> 15<colon/>22<colon/>23<dot/>24</date>
I like this, and I guess it's revealing that I didn't know you could
do things like that. But who would I be to let lack of experience and
knowledge be inhibiting factors? :-)
However, this doesn't begin to touch all the issues adressed
previously in the discussion, in particular it does not let the parser
catch illegal content in <date>s (like e.g. regexp constraints could),
nor does it solve locale problems (which I get the impression the data
type advocates want to)
It's still a neat trick, though.
~kzm
-- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants