Hi Eric, There is nothing really wrong with your approach, although there are other ways to do it as well. It is up to you if you think the other ways are better or worse....
For example, you can use the various date-time functions in XQuery for this: http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/4.0/apidocs/DurationDateTimeBuiltins .html Something like this: let $data := <data><date>2008-11-04</date></data> let $date := xs:date($data/date) let $mon := fn:month-from-date($date) let $year := fn:year-from-date($date) return fn:concat($mon, " ", $year) These functions are pretty low-level though, and can be pretty tedious to use. Also, there is a nice commons project that does a bunch of stuff with datetime stuff that might be useful: http://xqzone.marklogic.com/svn/commons/trunk/dates/ -Danny -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Palmitesta Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:03 AM To: ML Developer Mailing List Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] quick dateTime question Hi all, Input: <data> <date>2008-11-04</date> </data> Output: "Nov 2008" I can concatenate the xs:string of the date element with "T00:00:00" to create an xs:dateTime type which I can then pass to xdmp:strftime, like such: let $data := <data><date>2008-11-04</date></data> return xdmp:strftime("%b %Y", xs:dateTime(concat(string($data/date), "T00:00:00")) ) This seems pretty ugly, and the concat is kind of a hack. Is there a more reasonable way to handle this? Eric _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
