Re: status of ISO8601 date/time classes

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <ericb-D6Qt/9opevxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> writes:

    Eric> Thomas Beale wrote:
    >> in the 3.4 release of gobo, there are ISO8601 parsing classes,
    >> mostly implemented. In the recent CVS copy I made, they seem to
    >> have been merged into XSD classes. What I am after is ISO
    >> 8601:2004 standard date/time parsing and conversion classes -
    >> does the library still contain such code? I have some of my own
    >> code, but you have written far more, and I would rather use it
    >> than write more of my own.

    Eric> In fact this is Colin who wrote these ISO parsing classes.
    Eric> If I remember correctly we decided to remove them from the
    Eric> Gobo package for the time being because they were not fully
    Eric> implemented and not really supported, causing extra
    Eric> maintenance burden when they would not compile because of
    Eric> modifications in other classes. At that time we said that
    Eric> the code was in the history of CVS anyway, so if someone one
    Eric> day would be interested in resurrecting these classes and
    Eric> take over their development and implementation it was still
    Eric> possible. If you are that someone, then I suggest that you
    Eric> talk with Colin about what was done and what needed to be
    Eric> improved or was left unimplemented.

Your memory is correct, Eric.

Some more information:
My need was that in order to implement XPath 2.0, I needed to support
XSD times, dates and durations. As these are almost, but not quite,
ISO 8601 compliant, I attempted to implement a single library with
configuration options. But this proved to be too complex (at least,
for me).

I didn't have a copy of ISO 8601:2004 (indeed, I have not heard of it
before seeing this message), but I guess that there won't be too many
differences.

I only went as far as implementing parsing for the short forms.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire


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