Re: Output dateTime in canonical form

Thanks Cezar. I was able to generate the necessary output using GDateBuilder.

Anirban

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Cezar Andrei <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anirban,
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> Did you look at GDateBuilder, specifically at using normalizeToTimeZone
> methods?
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> Cezar
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> ________________________________
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> From: Anirban Mukherjee [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:12 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Output dateTime in canonical form
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> I wish to generate xml output where xs:dateTime values will be generated in
> the canonical form rather than the natural form
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> e.g. instead of 2009-10-13T01:11:17+05:30, I need 2009-10-12T19:41:17Z
> (converted to UTC with Z indicating that it is UTC)
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> Is there a straightforward way to achieve this ?
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> The GDate class has a canonicalString() method that produces the form I
> need, but the toString() produces the natural form.
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> Note: If input xml contains dateTime values in the canonical form, they are
> processed properly.
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> As an experiment, I tried to inherit a subclass from GDate with the intent
> of overriding toString() to invoke super.canonicalString() but the GDate
> class is final and hence cannot be extended.
> But even that would probably not have worked as the XmlDateTime would
> probably not care about the canonical form. Refer below...
> [
> GDate gdt = new GDate(cal);
> XmlDateTime dt = XmlDateTime.Factory.newInstance();
> dt.setGDateValue(gdt);
> sig.xsetExpirationDateTime(dt);
> ...
> ...
> doc.save...
> ]
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> Anirban