Using date picker widget for custom date type

Hi all,

I have a custom date type defined in my schema that is more conformant to the ISO8601 standard (it accepts YYYY-MM and YYYY in addition to YYYY-MM-DD).  Is there a way I can attach the date picker widget to my new type, like it binds to xs:date?  There is a text box in the widget that allows user input for alternative ISO8601 dates, but I'd like to provide the widget so that users can more conveniently pick YYYY-MM-DD formatted dates.

Thanks,
Ethan


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On 30 Aug 2010, at 12:05 , Ethan Gruber wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a custom date type defined in my schema that is more  
> conformant to the ISO8601 standard (it accepts YYYY-MM and YYYY in  
> addition to YYYY-MM-DD).  Is there a way I can attach the date  
> picker widget to my new type, like it binds to xs:date?  There is a  
> text box in the widget that allows user input for alternative  
> ISO8601 dates, but I'd like to provide the widget so that users can  
> more conveniently pick YYYY-MM-DD formatted dates.

You don't want to bind something to xs:date that accepts
YYYY and YYYY-MM as well as full dates.  YYYY and YYYY-MM are
(patterns for) values of type xs:gYear and xs:gYearMonth,
respectively.  The picker would be great for a union of
gYear, gYearMonth, and date.  Maybe XSD should have provided
that as a built-in type.  But it didn't.

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Hi, xs:date isn't bound to my date element.  A custom type iso8601date is, which contains a regular expression that allows YYYY or YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD.  What I'd like to do is display the date picker widget for the iso8601date data type, like it does with xs:date.  I assume this might be in the XSLT somewhere, but I'm not sure.  I'd say 75% of the time, a user wants to use the YYYY-MM-DD format and the other 25%, they can type in a custom value into the date picker's text input.  If the appearance="minimal" attribute is not set in the xforms:input, the text input for custom values won't display.

Ethan




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