Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-30 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Daniel Rall wrote: Interesting -- what package does that date formatting code belong to now? If it's homeless, I wouldn't mind adding it to Jakarta Commons Lang. Use of a third-party JAR is reasonable for HEAD (2.0), which has more dependencies, but not ideal for 1.2 (or any 1.x release), whic

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel Rall
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Daniel L. Rall wrote: Jochen, I defer to John on the timezone interpretation of what's generally accepted as output by common server implementations. However, like usual, I'm of the opinion that servers should be gracious about the types of input accepted, so long as doin

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-30 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Daniel L. Rall wrote: Jochen, I defer to John on the timezone interpretation of what's generally accepted as output by common server implementations. However, like usual, I'm of the opinion that servers should be gracious about the types of input accepted, so long as doing so isn't explicitly a

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel L. Rall
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Do, 2004-06-17 at 10:46, John Wilson wrote: The strengths of XML-RPC are its simplicity and interoperability with a very wide range of other implementations. The creator of the spec and the person who claims ownership of the XMl-RPC trademark has repeatedly and vocifer

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Do, 2004-06-17 at 10:46, John Wilson wrote: > The strengths of XML-RPC are its simplicity and interoperability with a > very wide range of other implementations. The creator of the spec and > the person who claims ownership of the XMl-RPC trademark has repeatedly > and vociferously stated th

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread John Wilson
On 17 Jun 2004, at 09:40, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Do, 2004-06-17 at 10:24, John Wilson wrote: The example in the spec does not include milliseconds - the generally accepted interpretation of the spec (i.e. by XML-RPC implementers) is that they are not permitted. If so, that leaves still more roo

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Do, 2004-06-17 at 10:24, John Wilson wrote: > The example in the spec does not include milliseconds - the generally > accepted interpretation of the spec (i.e. by XML-RPC implementers) is > that they are not permitted. If so, that leaves still more room for vendor extensions ... :-)

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread John Wilson
On 17 Jun 2004, at 09:20, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Do, 2004-06-17 at 09:36, John Wilson wrote: The XML-RPC spec (http://www.xml-rpc.com/spec see the last but one bullet point) says that timezones may not be present in a date. The generally accepted interpretation of the spec is that only the preci

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Do, 2004-06-17 at 09:36, John Wilson wrote: > The XML-RPC spec (http://www.xml-rpc.com/spec see the last but one > bullet point) says that timezones may not be present in a date. The > generally accepted interpretation of the spec is that only the precise > subset of ISO 8601 date/times give

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread John Wilson
On 17 Jun 2004, at 08:02, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Hi, the DateFormat used in the DateTool is supporting only a subset of ISO 8601 date/times. In particular time zones are missing, likewise one must not use milliseconds. The XML-RPC spec (http://www.xml-rpc.com/spec see the last but one bullet poi

DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-16 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, the DateFormat used in the DateTool is supporting only a subset of ISO 8601 date/times. In particular time zones are missing, likewise one must not use milliseconds. I suggest using the class XsDateTimeFormat from ws-jaxme instead, which is a thread safe instance of Format. The only differen