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Re: String match
Peter Flynn writes:
> > <start>
> > <day>12</day>
> > <month>January</month>
> > <year>2002</year>
> > </start>
>
> You may find it easier to work with numeric dates if you want to sort
> them or otherwise discriminate between them (eg months). The ISO date
> format is dd-mm-yyyyThh:mm:ss.ss (capital T in the middle) which will
> sort easily.
ISO format has the year first so that a "dictionary" sort will also
sort chronologically (for dates with the same timezone),
e.g. "2002-02-05" for 5 February, 2002.
>
> <eventRecord start="05-02-2002T" end="14-02-2002T">
> <title>Bla bla</title>
> </eventsCalendar>
>
> (BTW Does anyone know if truncated ISO dates are valid, or must they
> be padded with a [possibly misleading] "...00:00:00.00" when no time
> is specified?)
>
> > Hence a mechanism to check that: If the 'start month' is the same -
> > to apply eventRecord template but as soon as the 'start month'
> > differs then to apply ViewEvents template
>
> You can byte-slice the string values of attribute CDATA using
> the substring-before and substring-after functions.
>
> ///Peter
>
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